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Lily Allen has announced her first new album in seven years.
According to her post on Instagram, the London singer's long-awaited fifth LP is titled 'West End Girl', inspired by her West London roots, and will arrive through BMG this Friday (October 24),
Described by Allen as her most vulnerable record to date, it was written and recorded in just 10 days last December in Los Angeles, and completed in London and New York earlier this year. Collaborating with musical director Blue May, she also brought on Seb Chew and Kito as executive producers.
It'll follow her 2018 Mercury Prize-nominated record 'No Shame', and marks her first venture back into music since a run of stage roles in 2:22 A Ghost Story, The Pillowman, and most recently Hedda, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play. 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. 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' 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
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