West End Girl

West End Girl is the fifth studio album by English singer Lily Allen, released on 24 October 2025 on BMG. Recorded in Los Angeles over sixteen days in December 2024, the album lyrically reflects on the undoing of Allen's marriage to actor David Harbour, and how she processed his alleged acts of infidelity. West End Girl received universal acclaim from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 89, based on 6 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". In a five star review for The Independent, Hannah Ewens proclaimed the album "a brutal, tell-all masterpiece", naming it as her best work since It's Not Me, It's You. Ewens said that the album's "intense story-driven format lets her sound sharper, smarter, and more clear-eyed than before". Ewens contrasted the album to other divorce albums like Beyoncé's Lemonade and Adele's 30, claiming that its relatively fast turnaround allowed Allen to fully seize control of her narrative and hold very little back. Ali Shutler of NME hailed the album as "a vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback".