""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. 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..."
"Lily Allen has announced her first album in seven years: West End Girl is out this Friday, October 24, via BMG. Its 14 songs were mostly written by Allen and her musical director, Blue May, and the pair executive-produced the LP alongside Seb Chew and Kito. Below, check out Spanish artist Nieves González's cover art."
Lily Allen releases West End Girl on October 24 via BMG. The album contains 14 songs mainly written by Allen and her musical director Blue May. Allen and Blue May executive-produced the LP alongside Seb Chew and Kito. Spanish artist Nieves González provided the cover art. Allen describes the record as vulnerable and as an attempt to document life in a new city and the events that shaped her current life. The songs mix fact and fiction to examine shared human behaviors and the complexities of relationships. Since 2018, Allen has appeared in West End theatre and co-founded the podcast Miss Me.
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