Lucy announced the album back in December 2022, alongside the release of its piano led title track, which boasts some of her strongest vocals yet. I’ve been working very hard over the last 18 months on my album and I’ve been working for nearly two and a half years on my book and I’m thrilled that both things I have created are gonna be released into the world! I don’t have this connection with commercial or even regional radio like a lot of artists do, but I do have a very genuine connection with the people who come to my shows. That doesn’t deny the fact that I have a fuckload of tattoos all over my body, and it’s the same with music. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment.

And while she’s certainly been busy writing both a memoir and an album, she’s also happy to remain busy for the foreseeable future with touring her new music. Like to make my life look super cool and exciting online, but usually found at home, with my dogs, sipping wine and listening to Nicki French! Described as being a personal reflection of her life to this point, the record will be released Friday, April 28th 2023, with Process set to follow later that summer.Lucy was the first contestant in X Factor history to score a top 40 single and album before the live shows aired. I could be sitting on a train and someone will tell me the deepest, darkest shit they’ve ever been through. Surely everyone has songs like that, where they go – Oh I listen to that and I remember the time I was in love with so and so, or I listened to that when I was 15, or listened to that and thought the world was going to end because my girlfriend was going on holiday, you know?

News of Lucy’s album and book come just weeks after the ‘Roots’ singer announced details of her 2023 headline tour of the UK! Because there’s one thing Spraggan is really outspoken about, and it’s the appalling way in which the music industry tends to deal with (mental) health issues. Elsewhere there are some jaunty songs which give a sense of what went wrong particularly Cocaine with its list hook: ‘I just wish you loved me more than Cocaine, red wine, late nights and good times, fast cars, pink pills, Mary Jane and cheap thrills. What is more, writing the book has put a renewed spotlight on how different it is to put music to words and come up with melodies to describe feelings.

Lucy was the first contestant in X Factor history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired.