Remember Lady Sovereign?

Clash does. In all fairness, though the pint-sized rapper was slated in some sectors of the press, we (this writer at least) had something of a soft spot for the girl’s feisty rhymes. No doubt: ‘Hoodie’ was a straight-up pop-grime banger.

Now the gal born Louise Harman has spoken to Pitchfork about her disappearance from the music scene. Her debut album ‘Public Warning’ came out in 2006 but since then it’s been as good as completely quiet on the S-O-V front.

“I’ve just been livin’ a normal life, going shopping, going out, gettin’ pissed. I keep sitting on my arse doing nothing,” says Sov’ of her downtime from music, set to be broken by the release of album two ‘Jigsaw’ later this year. “Obviously [I’ve been] working on the album which is over now. But you know, just normality really.”

Of her experiences around the release of her debut, Sov says: “I got really fed up of it after… just doing unnecessary things all the time. I just wanted it to be about my music and it really pissed me off that they only wanted to release one song from my album and I had to work around that constantly which was a fucking headfuck.”

And of the new album the rapper comments: “It’s always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre. Obviously I’ve matured a bit and my content is a bit more… I’m holding back from being a bit leery. But not on purpose, it’s just the mood I’m in, the person I am at the moment. Everyone grows, everyone has their moments and stuff.”

Watch the video to Sov’s ‘I Got You Dancing’, the first taste of her new material…