Lily Allen has confirmed the title and release date of her fifth studio album.
The Smile singer has revealed that her new album, West End Girl, will be released later this week, on Friday 24 October.
Allen also shared the album artwork, painted portraits by Spanish artist Nieves González, and a list of all 14 tracks, featuring titles such as West End Girl, Sleepwalking, Dallas Major, Nonmonogamummy and Relapse.
The star wrote and recorded all 14 songs within 10 days in Los Angeles in December 2024 and added the finishing touches in London and New York earlier this year.
In a statement, the 40-year-old described West End Girl as one of her most “vulnerable” records to date.
“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,” she said.
“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.”
In an interview with British Vogue on Friday, The Fear hitmaker revealed that the record was inspired by her new life in New York and the breakdown of her four-year marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour amid allegations of infidelity on his part.
West End Girl marks a return to music for Allen, who took a step back from her singing career after releasing her 2018 album No Shame.
In recent years, she has focused on acting and her Miss Me? podcast. She has taken a break from the podcast while she resumes her music career.
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