A decade on from her first X Factor audition Lucy releases new album alongside her forthcoming memoir.

It makes me laugh that only now, when I had a top five album with my last album as well, there’s been quite a lot of attention and people ask about longevity and how to stay in the industry.If you could stand back / I used to say that / I thought I needed space to find my balance / But I might need a hand, and if you could be that / I might need some help to find my balance. Cover Notes: A decade on from her first X Factor audition Lucy releases 'Balance', alongside her memoir. For example, in the title track “Balance”, she confronts the fact that perhaps needing help from time to time isn’t so bad. Matching the vibes of Lucy’s second album Join the Club, the track perfectly captures not just Lucy’s uniqueness and creativity, but also her authentic personality.

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. That’s the joy of it, someone lists to a song, and they hear something completely fucking different to what you wrote, anyway,” she tells me after explaining the thought process behind the track “Cocaine”.Lucy has reunited with music industry supremo Simon Cowell who has signed her to his Syco Publishing and is an instrumental part in the album. With her debut novel flying off the shelves and her seventh album storming the UK Album Chart, it’s safe to say that 2023 is Lucy’s year. I just think that Van Gogh would not have made the quality of work that he did, if he had had to worry about which gallery his paintings would be in in 200 years,” she gestures.

When asked what memory or song she feels such a deep connection to, Spraggan immediately brings up Emily Sandé’s “Read All About It”, a song she had to sing during the X Factor UK. in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. Who doesn’t remember Lucy Spraggan, the jolly local lass that was the odd one out on The X Factor in 2012? Laced with the honesty and authenticity that sets her work aside from that of other artists, Balance is definitely a record that she should be proud of.Due to inventory and accounting purposes, we do not exchange items received for different items than originally purchased.