Babe Wake Up, A New Lily Allen Album Is Coming

Lily Allen isn’t just releasing new music – she’s dropping a whole new album.

West End Girl is due for release this Friday, October 24, and is the first time that Lily has released new music in seven years.

“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,” she said.

“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…….”

 

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So, what will this new album be about?

Well, Allen has already said that the record will detail her move to New York, and was written over a 10-day period in Los Angeles in December of last year.

Lily moved back to London earlier this year following her split from Stranger Things star David Harbour. The pair were together for four years, and ended their marriage

She told British Vogue that after the split she “wanted to die” so she checked into a mental health facility.

“The feelings of despair that I was experiencing were so strong. The last time that I felt anything like that, drugs and alcohol were my way out, so it was excruciating to sit with those and not use them,” she said.

Allen added that her relationship with food was tested in the wake of the breakup: “I’ve had real problems with food over the past few years. It got really, really, really bad.

“I knew that the things I was feeling were too extreme to be able to manage, and I was like, ‘I need some time away.’ I’ve been into those places (residential facility) before against my will, and I feel like that’s progress in itself. That’s strength.”

West End Girl is set for release on October 24.