Product Description

'Alright Still' is the debut album from comedian Keith Allen's daughter Lily Allen. Taking inspiration from her London surroundings and the music collection of her parents, Allen delivers a mix of ska, punk, hip-hop and rock with a hefty dose of pop. The album includes the extremely limited 7" single 'LDN' as well as 'Smile'.

Track Listing

1. Smile
2. Knock 'Em Out
3. LDN
4. Everything's Just Wonderful
5. Not Big
6. Friday Night
7. Shame For You
8. Littlest Things
9. Take What You Take
10. Friend Of Mine
11. Alfie

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1143 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
Being, as she is, the daughter of prominent British actor Keith Allen, the cynics could easily dismiss the rise of Lily Allen as an act of backroom nepotism, talent-free starlet helped to the stage by the right connections. One listen to her debut album Alright, Still, dispels any doubts about young Ms Allen's star quality. Possessed of a feisty wit and taste for urban storytelling that should see her compared to Mike "The Streets" Skinner, these eleven tracks of sunshine-friendly reggae pop cover topics including frustrating potential closing-time suitors ("Knock `Em Out"), being happy when your ex is having a bad time ("Smile"), and having a little brother who likes a bit of a smoke--and not just of the tobacco variety ("Alfie"). Wisely, however, Allen doesn't let the grittiness of the subject matter tarnish the golden pop suss of the songs, a suite of gleaming productions by names including Mark Ronson and Gwen Stefani collaborator Greg Kurstin that take inspiration from at the lighter end of reggae and vintage rocksteady. Doubtless some corners of the press will pillory her as a poor role model, but there's an engaging honesty to the likes of "LDN" - a love song to a city filled with teenage muggers, pimps and crackwhores, narrated by someone who's cycling because "the filth took away my license". Like father, like daughter .--Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Smile :-)
This is a great album, filled with great lyrics and beats.

I refused to buy this at first, but then LND changed all that and I have no regrets

The best album of 2007.
This has got to be the best album that I have ever heard. Lily is a great singer, all her songs are brilliant, and there isn't a song on there that you could dislike. I can't wait for the next album, because Lily has got to be the best singer ever!

Trite Lyrics,boring tunes and no time for T.
Every time "Smile" comes on the radio ,I have to reach for the off button.It affects my "mental health" every time she sings the line about her "mental health" without pronouncing the letter " T "in the middle of the word mental,or indeed any other word that has a "T" in the middle. Why hasn't somebody taken her to one side and said ,"Look Lily",give us all a break and stop sounding as though you're being strangled when you sing.