The British singer and songwriter’s new album, “West End Girl,” is a salacious autobiography. For pop fans hungry for real-life details, it’s proving irresistible.

Lily Allen's 'West End Girl' is a divorce album of such brutal honesty that it's compulsively listenable -- with great hooks and production on top of the shock value.

Lily Allen is very publicly single, and she is not loving it. Last week, Allen released her scathing album, West End Girl, which she wrote in just ten days following her divorce from actor David Harbour in December 2024.

Songs are grim portraits of living through disaster but a pop album is not the most suitable conduit for such heavy emotions

Allen’s voice sounds characteristically beautiful on West End Girls, but the album is defined by a radical level of sharing. Listening to her lyrics is like eavesdropping on a private conversation, making you wince,

The Hammersmith-born singer-songwriter phone hacks herself, resulting in an album of unvarnished rawness with more in common with Kirsty MacColl or Squeeze than any of her pop contemporaries