One of the UK’s great singer-songwriters, Joan Armatrading announces her brilliant new album, How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean.

Releasing November 22 on BMG, the pioneering star has produced a songwriting and recording masterclass. As usual in her recent history, the new record is a triumph of self-sufficiency – entirely written, produced, programmed and engineered by Joan herself.

Leading the way, with one of the album’s most ear-catching lyrics, is the single ‘I’m Not Moving,’ a set of words that Joan was immediately compelled to write after witnessing some alarmingly confrontational public behaviour by a young person. “He was like ‘I’m going to kill everybody! I’m not moving! You can get the police! You can’t move me!’ All the lyrics just flowed, in one, and I knew it had to have an aggression, because that’s how he was. I did a version of it that was a little bit milder, but you could tell that wasn’t it.”

The track is accompanied by a new video that brings Joan’s sentiment to life, with two people taking their own stands and refusing to budge…with a Hitchcock style cameo from the woman herself.

How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean:

1. 25 Kisses
2. Someone Else
3. Irresistible
4. I’m Not Moving
5. Say It Tomorrow
6. Back And Forth
7. Come Back To Me (If Only In Dreams)
8. Here’s What I Know
9. Redemption Love
10. How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean
11. Now What
12. I Gave You My Keys