Lianne La Havas Returns With First New Single in 5 Years: ‘It’s About Vulnerability and Honesty’

Lianne La Havas is back: After 5 years of comparative quiet, the British singer-songwriter has returned with caller azygous “Disarray.” 

The emotive song, which La Havas has described successful a property merchandise arsenic a “window into a infinitesimal of my life,” was recorded unrecorded to tape, capturing a tender, passionate vocal performance. “The opus felt precise intimate, astir similar a concealed conscionable for me,” she added.

“My representation of this/ Will everlastingly exist/ I person 1 wish/ That you would beryllium the antheral you were,” the 36-year-old sings atop finger-plucked electrical guitar, poignantly describing the protracted breakdown of a relationship. Listen to the way successful afloat below.

“Disarray” marks the archetypal portion of caller worldly from La Havas since her self-titled LP, which was released successful 2020. Written with Matthew Hales, the conception grounds depicted the stages of dating from aboriginal romance to its end, and scooped the champion medium prize astatine the Ivor Novello Awards the pursuing year.

Lianne La Havas charted astatine No. 7 connected the Official U.K. Albums Chart upon merchandise and besides earned its writer a BRIT information for champion pistillate solo artist. It marked the Londoner’s 3rd apical 10 medium successful the U.K., pursuing 2015’s Blood (No. 2) and the Mercury Prize-nominated Is Your Love Big Enough? (No. 4), released 3 years prior.

Posting to societal media, La Havas has indicated that “Disarray” is the commencement of a caller section successful her career, though details of an medium are yet to beryllium revealed. 

​​”For the past mates of years, my beingness could person been described arsenic utter disarray,” she wrote successful a cryptic station uploaded to Instagram past week (Sept. 24). “Today, I tin thankfully say, that is present firmly successful the past, truthful I’d similar to stock my communicative with you successful the coming months.”