Lily Allen + Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head

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Much of Lily Allen’s sophomore album, It’s Not Me, It’s You, unfolds like a list of complaints: This chap can’t get me off (“Not Fair”), dating an older fellow is kind of a drag (“I Could Say”), I’m just using you for sex (“Never Gonna Happen”). There’s an audible wistfulness in Allen’s voice—no surprise if you’ve followed her misadventures in the tabloids—but the whole thing is set on a Prozac-soaked pillow of robotic beats and puffy synths by the Bird and the Bee’s Greg Kurstin. She plays her first “official” post-album New York show, with Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head—yes, they chose that as their band name—opening.