New Lily Allen Album In February

Lily Allen is an avid blogger, but on Monday she wrote about something that people may care about more than her thoughts on wormholes, her BlackBerry and the Olympics: her next record.

"My new album will be released on the 9th of Feb 2009," she posted on MySpace. "I know it's a while away, but there will be bits and bobs flying around before then, I'm shooting a video(for viral release) in the next couple of weeks , to keep you entertained .

"I hope you'll all love it as much as I do, I'm working on extra stuff in the studio at the moment , it seems making an album isn't enough these days, some websites (not naming any!) wont put an album on their front page unless you give them exclusive tracks, not that i'm complaining, I am at my happiest in the studio so it works well for me, I just don't want to put out sub standard stuff . I always thought an album was a body of work in itself. you take it or leave it . You wouldn't say to a painter 'yeah i love the naked ladies ,but would you mind painting their hair blonde instead of brown, and making their tits a bit bigger?' or ' the trees are really pretty, a few more leaves perhaps?' Maybe you would actually , ha ha ."

Allen earlier revealed that the follow-up to her playful 2006 Alright, Still debut will be titled Stuck On The Naughty Step, which is named after a British method of disciplining children. Allen co-wrote and recorded songs for the album in Los Angeles with producer Greg Kurstin (Kylie Minogue, All Saints), who also worked on Alright, Still.