Lily Allen Announces Vulnerable New Album 'West End Girl' After 7-Year Hiatus

In a major music announcement, Lily Allen has revealed that she will be releasing her first album in 7 years this Friday, October 24th. Titled 'West End Girl', the 14-song LP was mostly written by Allen and her musical director, Blue May, who also served as executive producers alongside Seb Chew and Kito.

According to a press release, Allen is "nervous" about the new album, as it is "vulnerable in a way that [her] music perhaps hasn't been before". The singer explains that she has tried to "document [her] life in a new city and the events that led [her] to where [she is] in [her] life now", while also using "shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do".

As a result, the album is described as "a mixture of fact and fiction" that serves as "a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be". Allen says the record is "very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It's a story..."