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<\/p>\nThe record West End Girl will be released via BMG on October 24 and features 14 new songs, written and recorded over a 10-day period in Los Angeles in December 2024.<\/p>\n
The tracks, inspired by her move to New York, were later finished in London and New York.<\/p>\n
Allen, who recently split from her husband, Stranger Things actor David Harbour, said: \u201cI\u2019m nervous. The record is vulnerable in a way that my music perhaps hasn\u2019t been before \u2013 certainly not over the course of a whole album.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve tried to document my life in a new city and the events that led me to where I am in my life now.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 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\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allen, 40, who married Harbour in 2020, previously said on her podcast Miss Me? that she entered a treatment centre for therapy in January because she wanted to be her \u201cstrongest self\u201d for her children, who she shares with ex-husband Sam Cooper.<\/p>\n
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Lily Allen with David Harbour (Jeff Moore\/PA)<\/p>\n
All 14 songs on the new album were written by Allen, mainly in collaboration with her musical director Blue May.<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s executive producers were Lily Allen, her former partner Seb Chew, Kito and Blue May, with cover art by Spanish artist Nieves Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n
Allen burst onto the music scene in 2006 with her debut album Alright, Still, which featured tracks such as Smile and LDN.<\/p>\n
Her 2018 album No Shame was nominated for the Mercury Prize, but she stepped away from music after releasing a candid memoir My Thoughts Exactly.<\/p>\n
She has had success as an actor in recent years, starring in sold-out runs of plays 2:22 A Ghost Story and The Pillowman, plus a recent starring role in a new adaptation of Ibsen\u2019s domestic tragedy Hedda Gabler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The record West End Girl will be released via BMG on October 24 and features 14 new songs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,898,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-93202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}