Allen Lily: No shame 2018

For No Shame, she knew it was time to take it back to basics. The record has been four years in the making, beginning life in 2015 in a rented house in Los Angeles, where she and long-time collaborator and friend Fryars focused purely on writing songs, before bringing what they'd done back to London, where Lily set up her own studio space. "It was good to start with Fryars, then bring it here and sit with them on my own, and not feel the pressure of someone else in the room, thinking, 'When's she going to write something?' I wanted to think about it, and I want to make it sound as real as possible. That stuff takes time to figure out."