Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer.

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.Balance muses on the stability she’s seeking with the heartfelt and almost child-like plea: ‘But I might need a hand and if you could be that I might need some help to find my Balance.

Lucy was the first contestant in X Factor history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired. If you’ve seen Lucy perform live, you’ll know that audience participation is a huge part of her sets and it’s easy to see which tracks are going to attract those mass singalongs – two being ‘Not Another Travelling Song’ and the album’s penultimate track, ‘Manchester’. It’s one of the things that Spraggan has also touched upon in her memoir which was published this July.Balance’ is Lucy Spraggan’s seventh studio album produced by Philip MaGee and released through Lucy’s own label Ctrl Records working alongside Simon Cowell’s Syco Publishing company. That song absolutely triggers me, because life was so hectic then, and that song itself is connected really deeply to the X Factor for me. While songwriting has always been her strong suit, the songs on this record are a far cry from “Last Night”. Similarly, there’s “The Cost of Living,” which she describes as “quite fun – an old school song of mine that’s more like spoken word.

With a bridge in which Spraggan’s voice breaks while promising Caroline’s mum that “the kindness remains”, it’s sure to be a meaningful ballad that people hopefully take to heart. When I ask her if that also means people feel safe or take the liberty to confide in her, she tells me she’s been used to that since forever. 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. A hauntingly beautiful tribute to Lucy’s late friend, Caroline Flack, ‘Caroline’ addresses the scrutiny that comes with life in the public eye. But in opening the LP, Lucy goes right back to the beginning with a throwback reference to Last Night (Beer Fear) – the song that made her a household name after she performed it on ‘The X Factor’ stage in 2012.

It’s interesting, people come up to me and say that song’s written about me – which is nice because that’s also about me.

I can read the story of my life and listen to the music I was producing at the time, they really do sit side by side, and definitely, the later parts of the book represent who I am now. in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. We carry a broad range of CDs and vinyl (7”/12” singles and LPs) and specialise in indie, alternative, rock, punk, metal plus a few other genres.Who doesn’t remember Lucy Spraggan, the jolly local lass that was the odd one out on The X Factor in 2012? In drawing on the process of putting pen to paper and writing her memoirs, Lucy not only celebrates the highs and lows of the past decade on an album that cuts to the core of her experience to date, but delivers her strongest, most finely crafted work of her career so far. All of those albums are a part of my collection of music, whereas all these tattoos are a collection of my existence.