West End Girl by Lily Allen

West End Girl, Lily Allen's fifth album and her first in seven years, came out on BMG on 24 October 2025, her first record since leaving Parlophone. She cut most of it in Los Angeles in a ten-day burst in December 2024, with more production added in February 2025, writing the bulk of it herself and co-producing alongside Seb Chew, Kito and Blue May, among others.

It's a pop record dipped in electronic sheen, R&B smoothness and a flicker of garage. The songs trace the collapse of her marriage to actor David Harbour, her reckoning with his alleged infidelity and the feelings it stirred up. Critics went for its honesty and storytelling, it turned up on best-of-the-year lists, and it earned a Brit nomination for British Album of the Year. "4chan Stan" and the title track show how sharp and conversational the writing stays, even when it hurts.

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