Lily Allen will release ‘West End Girl’ – her fifth album and first in seven years – this week.
The LP was announced on Monday (October 20), days before the project is set to drop, in a post by the Smile hitmaker, revealing details of the record and its artwork.
She wrote and recorded all 14 songs within 10 days in Los Angeles in December 2024, before adding the finishing touches in London and New York earlier this year.
In a statement, she revealed: “I’m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before – certainly not over the course of a whole album. I’ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now,” she said.
“At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs which try to delve into why we humans behave as we do, so the record is a mixture of fact and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic yet also how frail we humans can be.
“In that respect I think it’s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It’s a story.”
Speaking to British Vogue, the Not Fair singer revealed that the record was inspired by her life in New York and the breakdown of her marriage to ‘Stranger Things’ actor David Harbour, following allegations of infidelity on his part.
The Brit released her most-recent LP, ‘No Shame’, in 2018.
‘West End Girl’ is out Friday (October 24) and available to pre-save here.
Tracklist: Lily Allen – West End Girl
1. West End Girl
2. Ruminating
3. Sleepwalking
4. Tennis
5. Madeline
6. Relapse
7. Pussy Palace
8. 4chan Stan
9. Nonmonogamummy
10. Just Enough
11. Dallas Major
12. Beg for Me
13. Let You W/in
14. Fruityloop
