Lily Allen has unveiled West Finish Woman, her first new album in seven years.
On West Finish Woman, Allen channels her frustrations and anxieties round her divorce from actor David Harbour, and (just about chronologically) dives into the varied causes their marriage fell aside. She goes into nice element; like on the title observe, which captures Allen’s transfer to New York to be with Harbour earlier than she’s shortly given a possibility to maneuver again to London to star in a West Finish play.
Quickly after, Allen makes an attempt to make peace with the concept the person she married wasn’t precisely residing as much as her expectations and chafes on the thought of non-monogamy. “If it has to occur, child, do you wish to know?,” she sings, quoting her ex proposing an open relationship over the cellphone. “What a fucking line… This dialog’s too large for a cellphone name.”
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Allen then dives into the varied points that their “association” introduced up: the space, the humiliation, the sensation like she’ll by no means be sufficient for him. She shudders on the realization that her house in New York was serving as a locale for her husband to cheat on “Pussy Palace,” and on “Madeline,” she confronts one in all his mistresses: “I’m not satisfied that he didn’t fuck you in our home,” Allen sings.
She additionally dives into matters together with psychological well being and habit (“Relapse”), the sacrifices she was prepared to make to maintain her relationship alive (“Nonmonogamumy”), the challenges of courting in her discipline, age, and circumstances (“Dallas Main”), and the messy fallout of divorce (“Let You Win”). She ends with a notice of acceptance on “Fruityloop,” singing, “It’s what it’s, you’re a multitude, I’m a bitch/ Want I might repair all of your shit, however all of your shit’s yours to repair,” and hearkening again to the title of her lauded 2009 album by taunting “It’s not me, it’s you.”
Sonically, Allen collaborated with Blue Could together with contributions from Kito, Jason Evigan, Hayley Gene Penner, Oscar Scheller, and lots of extra. The album follows a extra cinematic type, with some sweeping preparations and meditating hues; there isn’t a lot dance pop or overly-bright modes all through, and the beats on West Finish Woman slink, slide, and sizzle. Stream West Finish Woman under.
“I’m nervous,” Allen stated in a press launch of West Finish Woman. “The report is weak in a means that my music maybe hasn’t been earlier than – actually not over the course of a complete album. I’ve tried to doc my life in a brand new metropolis and the occasions that led me to the place I’m in my life now. On the similar time, I’ve used shared experiences as the premise for songs which attempt to delve into why we people behave as we do, so the report is a combination of truth and fiction which I hope serves as a reminder of how stoic but additionally how frail we people might be. In that respect I feel it’s very a lot an album in regards to the complexities of relationships and the way all of us navigate them. It’s a narrative…….”
West Finish Woman is Allen’s first album since 2018’s No Disgrace. Within the years since, Allen has been very lively within the English theater world; she received a Laurence Olivier Award for her efficiency in 2:22 A Ghost Story in 2022, starred within the West Finish revival of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman in 2023, and performed the titular function in a latest adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler this 12 months.
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West Finish Woman Tracklist:
01. West Finish Woman
02. Ruminating
03. Sleepwalking
04. Tennis
05. Madeline
06. Relapse
07. Pussy Palace
08. 4Chan Stan
09. Nonmonogamummy
10. Simply Sufficient
11. Dallas Main
12. Beg For Me
13. Let You W/in
14. Fruityloop
