Lily Allen has announced her first new album in seven years.
The album, West End Girl, features tracks which were inspired by her move to New York, and were also finished in London and New York. It will arrive via BMG this Friday (October 24), and will include 14 new songs, which were written and recorded over a 10 day period in Los Angeles across December last year.
These songs were written by Allen, and have seen her collaborate with her musical director, Blue May. It will also feature cover art by Spanish artist, Nieves Gonzalez.
Speaking about this album, Allen who recent split from her husband David Harbour after seven years of marriage, admitted that putting this album together has made her feel "nervous".
She said: “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 continued. “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…….”.
West End Girl has also seen Allen serve as an executive producer, alongside her former partner Seb Chew, Kito and Blue May.
