Biography
A witty English singer and songwriter whose music blends folk with indie pop, Lucy Spraggan secured a U.K. chart entry after delivering a warmly received audition on The X Factor in 2012. Critical praise greeted her third album, the reflective We Are from 2015, and she sustained momentum at home and overseas through lively later releases such as Today Was a Good Day (2019), Choices (2021), and Balance (2023), all of which highlight inclusivity while supporting the LGBTQ community.
Sheffield-raised and Canterbury-born, the former photograph salesperson Lucy Spraggan already possessed a self-released album when she earned enthusiastic responses for her own composition “Last Night” at an X Factor audition in 2012. October 2011’s Top Room at the Zoo paired observational lyrics shaped by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner with a buoyant, playful vocal approach reminiscent of Kate Nash. Following the broadcast of her audition, Zoo climbed to number 22 on the U.K. albums chart, and “Last Night” narrowly missed the Top Ten on the corresponding singles listing. In 2013 she issued her second album, Join the Club, which featured a fresh recording of “Last Night (Beer Fear),” and then launched a headline tour across the country to support it.
Spraggan reappeared in 2015 with her third studio set, We Are, which earned broad critical approval for its candid and introspective songwriting; she promoted the project via The Unsinkable Tour. Later that year she established her independent imprint CTRL Records, whose inaugural output was the 2016 EP Home containing a reworked version of “Tea & Toast” from Join the Club. Work on her fourth full-length began later in 2016, with the artist noting that the songwriting felt more spontaneous than methodical; the resulting I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing arrived in January 2017. Two years afterward she delivered her fifth album, the compassionate Today Was a Good Day—her debut for Cooking Vinyl—which featured the uplifting single “Stick the Kettle On.” In 2021 she released the inward-facing Choices, drawn from an array of personal episodes, and it entered the U.K. Albums Chart at number five. Balance, her seventh LP, surfaced in 2023 alongside her autobiography Process.
Sheffield-raised and Canterbury-born, the former photograph salesperson Lucy Spraggan already possessed a self-released album when she earned enthusiastic responses for her own composition “Last Night” at an X Factor audition in 2012. October 2011’s Top Room at the Zoo paired observational lyrics shaped by Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner with a buoyant, playful vocal approach reminiscent of Kate Nash. Following the broadcast of her audition, Zoo climbed to number 22 on the U.K. albums chart, and “Last Night” narrowly missed the Top Ten on the corresponding singles listing. In 2013 she issued her second album, Join the Club, which featured a fresh recording of “Last Night (Beer Fear),” and then launched a headline tour across the country to support it.
Spraggan reappeared in 2015 with her third studio set, We Are, which earned broad critical approval for its candid and introspective songwriting; she promoted the project via The Unsinkable Tour. Later that year she established her independent imprint CTRL Records, whose inaugural output was the 2016 EP Home containing a reworked version of “Tea & Toast” from Join the Club. Work on her fourth full-length began later in 2016, with the artist noting that the songwriting felt more spontaneous than methodical; the resulting I Hope You Don’t Mind Me Writing arrived in January 2017. Two years afterward she delivered her fifth album, the compassionate Today Was a Good Day—her debut for Cooking Vinyl—which featured the uplifting single “Stick the Kettle On.” In 2021 she released the inward-facing Choices, drawn from an array of personal episodes, and it entered the U.K. Albums Chart at number five. Balance, her seventh LP, surfaced in 2023 alongside her autobiography Process.
Albums
Singles
