{"id":5645,"date":"2025-07-18T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5645\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T14:12:08","slug":"imogen-heap-to-reissue-speak-for-yourself-for-20th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/5645\/","title":{"rendered":"Imogen Heap to Reissue Speak for Yourself for 20th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (July 18) marks the 20th anniversary of <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/2051-imogen-heap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Imogen Heap<\/a>\u2019s highly influential 2005 LP, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/4025-speak-for-yourself\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speak for Yourself<\/a>. To celebrate, Heap is reissuing the album\u2014her first to be entirely self-written and self-produced. Out October 17, via <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/megaphonicrecords.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/megaphonicrecords.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/megaphonicrecords.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Megaphonic<\/a>, the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/shop.imogenheap.com\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/shop.imogenheap.com\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.imogenheap.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new edition<\/a> features updated cover artwork and is led by a remastered version of its frequently sampled, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vmd1qMN5Yo0?si=ExX9B9FJL4ie5UGR\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">famously memed<\/a> lead single \u201c<a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/sfy20.com\/hideandseek\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/sfy20.com\/hideandseek&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/sfy20.com\/hideandseek\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hide and Seek<\/a>.\u201d Listen to it below, and watch Heap in conversation with engineer Simon Heyworth, who worked on both the original Speak for Yourself and the anniversary remaster.<\/p>\n<p>Heap\u2019s last solo album, Sparks, came out in 2014. Since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/31708-ariana-grande\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana Grande<\/a> sampled Speak for Yourself\u2019s \u201cGoodnight and Go\u201d on \u201cGoodnight N Go,\u201d from her 2018 album, <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/albums\/ariana-grande-sweetener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sweetener<\/a>, and, in 2019, Heap and Guy Sigsworth <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/frou-frou-imogen-heap-and-guy-sigsworth-share-first-new-song-in-15-years-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reunited<\/a> as Frou Frou to share what was then their first new song in over 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the 2022 feature \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/article\/imogen-heap-eternal-influence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Eternal Influence of Imogen Heap<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today (July 18) marks the 20th anniversary of Imogen Heap\u2019s highly influential 2005 LP, Speak for Yourself. 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