Lily Allen is readying her return with West End Girl , her first studio album in seven years. The musician hasn’t released any newly penned music since No Shame in 2018. Eager for the release, Allen has scheduled the album to arrive on Friday, Oct. 24.
“I’m nervous,” Allen said in a statement. “The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before – certainly not over the course of a whole album.” The album came together quickly. The singer-songwriter wrote and recorded the project over 10 days in Los Angeles late last year before completing it between New York and London.
New York is a significant character on the record, which reflects on the time Allen spent living in the city after moving there in 2020. That year, she married actor David Harbour. Four years