Lily Allen is set to drop her first album in seven years – after penning the record in 10 days.
The 40-year-old singer has signed a deal with record label BMG for the secret project, which is expected to feature a “real outpouring of emotions”.
A music insider told The Sun newspaper’s Bizarre column: “Lily wants to really surprise people with this new music and everyone has been sworn to secrecy.
“It will tell the story of her move to New York and also how she coped with the breakdown of her marriage to David Harbour.
“There’s a real outpouring of emotions in it. She’s not had the easiest time and she’s ready to bare her soul.”
Lily’s new LP will be her first since her fourth studio album No Shame dropped in 2018.
The pop star released four albums between 2006 and 2018 and had huge hits with tracks including Smile, The Fear and Not Fair.
In June, she told how her music was going through “an actual resurgence” online among “young kids”, because her royalty payments had increased.
During an appearance on her Miss Me? podcast, Lily explained: “I do find it hard listening to that music. I’m not ashamed of it because I think it was good for what it was at the time. And actually I think it does still stand up …
“It’s having an actual resurgence on the internet. I know because my royalty payments are going up. There are young kids that are into my music now.”
Lily told how she had been “been tracking the new wave of interest through streaming data”.
The LDN hitmaker previously admitted she had been back in the studio working on new material, and said music was almost like her “therapy” after a tough year in which she split from her actor husband David Harbour.
On the podcast, she said: “Music is the one place where I can let it all go. It’s almost like therapy. I like to write and record at the same time with somebody else in the room – there’s something therapeutic about it.
“My producer or my co-writers become almost like therapists because I’m processing the things that I’m going through in real time …
“I can do that in music, but I can’t really do it when I’m talking to friends or my parents. It doesn’t mean I’m being inauthentic … I just don’t feel like I can sum things up properly. But I can do it in a three-and-a-half minute pop song.”