Jealousy, pain, and humour; Lily Allen’s return to the studio after seven years away is a brutal recounting of the collapse of a marriage.

No wonder Lily has ‘no hard feelings’ after her divorce from David Harbour; she’s left it all in this break-up album to end all break-up albums.

West End Girl is said to be ‘inspired’ by personal experiences in her life and is autofictional – but it’s unlikely her ex-husband will walk away from this release unscathed in the public eye.

Payments for sex, cheating, lies, vasectomies, sex addiction, and ‘Madeline’, Lily unleashed five years of hurt in one deeply narrative album.

Starting with the title track, she leads us into a dreamy state, wide-eyed and loved-up as she buys a house with this man who pushes for the white picket-fence life.

However,

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