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Lily Allen has announced details of her new album West End Girl – which is due out at the end of October. According to her teaser, it is the most vulnerable work in her catalog so far.
It will be published on October 24, 2025 via BMG. It is Allen’s fifth studio album and first new record in seven years. As NME reported, the artist wrote all 14 songs within ten days in Los Angeles last December. She worked with Blue May, Seb Chew and Kito.
“Vulnerable in a way that my music has perhaps never been before”
“I’m nervous. The album is vulnerable in a way that maybe my music has never been before – at least not in the context of a whole album,” Allen said of the upcoming longplayer, according to NME. “I tried to document my life in a new city and the events that brought me to where I am now.”
A mix of fact and fiction
She continued: “At the same time, I’ve used shared experiences as the basis for songs that attempt to explore why we as humans behave the way we do. So the album is a mix of fact and fiction, hopefully a reminder of how stoic and at the same time how fragile we humans can be.” In this respect, it is a work that deals with the complexity of relationships and how to overcome them, says Lily Allen.
Allen recently suggested in an interview with British Vogue that the record also deals with the dissolution of her marriage to Stranger Things actor David Harbour. Reports of alleged infidelity on his part had previously surfaced.
The tracklist
The British pop singer shared the record’s tracklist on Instagram on October 20:
- “West End Girl”
- “Ruminating”
- “Sleepwalking”
- “Tennis”
- “Madeline”
- “Relapse”
- “Pussy Palace”
- “4Chain Stan”
- “Nonmonogamummy”
- “Just Enough”
- “Dallas Major”
- “Beg For Me”
- “Let You Win”
- “Fruit Loop”
Allen most recently released the album “No Shame” in 2018. The electropop album was influenced by dancehall and reggae and contained confessional lyrics about the breakdown of her marriage – then to Sam Cooper – as well as friendships, maternal guilt, drug abuse and social and political issues.