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Lily Allen album delay due to label : Other Music News

August 18, 2008

Lily Allen has blamed her record label for the delayed release of her new album.

London singer Lily has finished making her second LP but claims difficulties at EMI and within the industry as a whole have led to uncertainty.

She writes on her blog: “The album has been finished for a while now, I don’t really know what’s going on with it.”

She explained: “I am on EMI records, lots of people have been fired or have taken redundancy recently as the company was taken over by a private equity firm called Terra Firma.”

Smile singer Lily wrote that the record industry was a “very political place at the moment”, that many of the people who had been fired were working on her projects and that so she “didn’t quite know” what was going on.

But the post ended on an optimistic note with Lily saying she was sure she would be able to put out the album quite soon.