“The eclectic U.K. artist takes a brutal emotional inventory on West End Girl”
“If the pop music industry were a high school cafeteria, Lily Allen wouldn't be sitting at any of the tables amongst her peers. Sure, she'd have a seat waiting among her late-aughts classmates like Kate Nash, M.I.A., Duffy and MIKA — all frantically finishing their homework before next period — but Allen's across the street by the Tube entrance in an oversized puffer coat, smoking ciggies with the ”
“West End Girl is Lily Allen’s break-up album for the modern generation”
“a vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback”
“With an album that doubles as an insider’s account of a tabloid divorce, the singer finds a new evolution of her signature style: Lightness isn’t a foil for irony, but a vehicle for hurt.”
“West End Girl is compellingly candid, but suffers from some musical blandness and writing that's sometimes too on-the-nose.”
