Joan Armatrading's new album, the catchily titled How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean, includes the powerful I'm Not Moving, which she wrote after seeing a young man behaving aggressively in ...

How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean is her 21st studio album, and it’s written, produced, programmed and engineered by Armatrading who, from her very earliest days in the studio, has always ...

The sound, and the style of her singing and the timbre of the voice, are unmistakably Armatrading, the links to those Seventies classics easily discernible, but I also hear faint, passing echoes of ...