It’s safe to assume David Harbour isn’t having a great week. The 50-year-old Stranger Things actor, and former husband of English singer-songwriter Lily Allen, is the very public subject of her new album West End Girl – an unflinching account of ...

Lily Allen's return to the top of the charts has been anything but quiet, with the 40-year-old singer's new album West End Girl – a blistering collection of tracks about betrayal, lust, and heartbreak – sparking a frenzy among fans convinced she's using it to take a pointed aim at her ex-husband,

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