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Lily Allen performed for 3,300 guests at the Masonic in San Francisco on May 30, 2026. She had just released one of the most impeccable albums of last year, West End Girl, an epic 44-minute tale of an unraveling psyche inside a high-functioning celebrity marriage marked by serial cheating and gaslighting. The record unveils the person underneath, rebuilding, stripping down, and rewiring. The sound is encased in spans of poised pop, reggaeton, vocoder-soaked torch moments, and EDM. The album’s trajectory feels as tender and surprising as it must have felt to write it, and somewhere in the middle, you find yourself piecing together the affair partners as the only clues to what really happened, until they begin to feel like your counselor. It moves through every stage of grief and lands, finally, in acceptance by the time you reach the last track, “Fruity Loop.” Continue reading “Show Review: Lily Allen with The Dallas Minor Trio at The Masonic, 4/28/26”