Lily Allen announces new album ‘West End Girl’ out October 24th

Lily Allen has todayd announced her fifth studio album ‘West End Girl’, set to be released later this week on October 24.

The record, Lily’s first for seven years, features 14 brand new songs, written and recorded over an intense 10 day period in Los Angeles starting in Dec 2024, and later finished in London and New York.

All 14 songs were written by Lily, mainly in collaboration with her musical director Blue May. The album’s executive producers were Lily Allen, Seb Chew, Kito and Blue May. The cover art and illustrations were made by renowned Spanish artist Nieves González. 

“I’m nervous”, the writer/singer reveals. “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. 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…….” 

You canpre-order the album here.