Lily Allen Returns After Seven Years with West End Girl Album

Today Lily Allen releases her fifth studio album ‘West End Girl’ via BMG. Her first album in seven years,‘West End Girl’ features 14 brand new songs, written and recorded over an intense 10-day period in Los Angeles starting in December 2024, and finished in London and New York.

All 14 songs were written by Lily, in collaboration with her musical director Blue May. The album’s executive producers were Lily Allen, Seb Chew, Kito and Blue May. The cover art and illustrations were made by renowned Spanish artist Nieves González.

Long a defining and maverick voice of contemporary pop, Lily’s first two albums – her 2006 debut ‘Alright, Still’ and its follow-up ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ reimagined pop stardom for the internet age, selling more than 5 million copies worldwide. Her Mercury-nominated 2018 album ‘No Shame’ and explosively candid memoir ‘My Thoughts Exactly’ cemented her reputation as one of music’s sharpest truth-tellers, before she announced she was stepping away from music.

In her absence Allen’s influence only deepened. Billie Eilish has spoken about crying the first time she heard ‘Smile’. Olivia Rodrigo, who invited Allen to perform ‘Fuck You’ at Glastonbury in protest at the US Supreme Court, credits her with showing how to “say what the fuck you want”. PinkPantheress, another admirer, put it simply: “Allen made sounding like yourself feel cool“.