Overview
- West End Girl arrived on Oct. 24 as Allen’s first album in seven years, quickly dominating coverage for its confessional focus on a relationship breakdown.
- Songs such as Pussy Palace, Madeline, Tennis and Sleepwalking depict discoveries of a secondary apartment stocked with condoms and sex toys, messages from a woman named Madeline, and late‑night suspicions.
- The lyrics strongly suggest broken rules in an open arrangement and a partner’s “double life,” with pointed references to infidelity and emotional manipulation.
- Allen characterizes the record as autofiction that mixes lived experience with invention, and Harbour has offered no new comment beyond a guarded April remark to British GQ.
- Early reviews are broadly positive about Allen’s sharp songwriting, and several outlets note she wrote much of the 14‑track album in roughly 10 days.