Lily Allen announces “vulnerable” new album ‘West End Girl’

Seven years on from the release of her last album, iconic London singer Lily Allen has returned with news of her long-awaited fifth album.

Titled ‘West End Girl’, a nod to her time spent growing up in West London, her latest full-length is set for release later this week, on Friday 24th October via BMG. It’ll follow on from her 2018 Mercury Prize-shortlisted record ‘No Shame’, and doubles as her first new music since appearing in several stage productions, including 2:22 A Ghost Story, The Pillowman, and most recently, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play Hedda. 

“I’m nervous,” Lily has said, of returning to release new music. “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…….” 

Allen’s new album has been confirmed as fourteen tracks in length, and you can check out its tracklisting - as shared via an Instagram post - below. Its songs were written and recorded over an intense 10 day period in Los Angeles starting in December 2024 alongside her musical director Blue May, before being completed in London and New York more recently, with additional production from Seb Chew and Kito. The album’s cover art, meanwhile, was created by renowned Spanish artist Nieves González. 

‘West End Girl’ tracklisting:
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