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Lily Allen<\/a> has announced her first album in seven years: West End Girl<\/em><\/a> is out this Friday, October 24, via BMG<\/a>. 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 Gonz\u00e1lez<\/a>\u2019s cover art.<\/p>\n In a press release, Allen said, \u201cI\u2019m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn\u2019t been before\u2014certainly not over the course of a whole album. I\u2019ve 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\u2019ve 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\u2019s very much an album about the complexities of relationships and how we all navigate them. It\u2019s a story\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n Since her last album, 2018\u2019s No Shame<\/em><\/a>, Allen has appeared in various West End London theater productions and co-founded the podcast Miss Me<\/em>.<\/p>\n