Lucy Spaggan have always worn their heart on the sleeve – since she in 2012 factor Audition got viral with the poignant ‘Last night (beer fear)’. But with ‘Other pages of the moon’Her eighth studio album, the British singer writer, just struggles back-not the arrangements, but also the emotional walls.
The 15-track collection is a sweeping transformation of fan favorites, recalled and reworked with film strings, acoustic intimacy and the type of hard-win vulnerability that comes only from healing. The spray now uses in the early 30s and several years sober this entry as both retrospective and reintroduction.
To be clear, this is not a largest hits album; It’s a bill.
Opens with a reworked ‘Unscrubable’The disc sets its emotional coordinates early. Piano Swells and Delicate Orchestration raises the song from the Indie-Pop Hymnen to something more introspective-like Florence Welch After a storm. Track like ‘Lucky Stars’ and ‘Butterflies’ Now flutter with richer instrumentation and slower Tempos, giving the lyrics room to breathe – and break your heart.
But ‘Other pages …’ Not just about polishing old gems. The two original songs, ‘Sky’ and ‘The lesson’is the roughest moments of the album. The former is a haunting piano ballad that meditates grief, while the latter – the detailed spray that goes down in the hallway on her wedding day, lacks his late father – is delivered with such a stillness that it feels like time has a breath itself.
Then there are ‘Sober’reintegrated as a duet with none other than Robbie Williams. Their voices – limed but warm – Intertwine as old friends who share scars. It is an unexpected mating and one of the album’s high points. Williams, who has his own well -documented battles with addiction, gives weight and tenderness to the song and turns it into a common hymn of survival.
Throughout all the time, the voice’s voice and mine is: structured, honest and not afraid of the silence between the notes. She does not try to recover past glossies here. She frames them – on her terms.
Production, with the permission of close collaborators, leans into Americana and Chamber pop implication, with temporary hints of the unique indie-pop stylings that are synonymous with some of Lucy’s largest hits that appear all the time.
Lucy Spaggan ‘Heaven’ (Official Lyric Video)
A record that not only visits the past, but writes about it with clarity, compassion and an undeniable sense of grace, ‘Other pages of the moon’ is undoubtedly Lucy Spragon’s most mature and self -assured work so far.
Beautiful balancing reinforcement with authenticity, its strengths lies in the courageous vulnerability of the singers, her lively story and the lush but still controlled production of the album. The new tracks deepen the emotional palette, while the reimaginated classics feel fresh and intentional.
Whether you are a long fan or new to her music, this record is a cordial journey worth taking – one that captures Lucy Spragon’s growth as an artist and a storyteller in full bloom.
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