Lily Allen is officially back.
The 40-year-old “Smile” singer announced her long-awaited fifth studio album, West End Girl, will drop on October 24 — her first new record in seven years.
The album, featuring 14 brand new tracks, was born out of what Allen calls “an intense 10-day period” of writing in Los Angeles in December 2024, later finished in London and New York.
She co-wrote the songs with musical director Blue May, while Seb Chew, Kito, and Blue May all served as executive producers. The album’s cover and illustrations were created by Spanish artist Nieves González, adding a whimsical, hand-drawn aesthetic to the project’s storytelling theme.
“I’m nervous,” Lily admitted. “The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn’t been before – certainly not over the course of a whole album.”
She continued, “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,” she added, “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 follows her critically acclaimed 2018 release No Shame, which marked a mature, introspective turn for Allen as an artist.
West End Girl tracklist
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
