Speak for Yourself is the second solo album by the English singer Imogen Heap. It was released on 18 July 2005 in the United States. The album was written, produced, arranged, and funded by Heap, without the backing of a record label, and features guest appearances from Jeff Beck, who provides a guitar solo on "Goodnight and Go", and by Heap's ex-boyfriend, Richie Mills, who argues with her on "The Moment I Said It". Heap began working on Speak for Yourself following her collaborative effort with Guy Sigsworth as Frou Frou.
Speak for Yourself was re-released on 24 December 2012, by Sony Music, with additional deluxe and instrumental editions. It was remastered and re-released on 17 October 2025 at higher audio quality to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary.
Dear sister,
By the time you read this, I’ll be dead. This is how I think it will happen.
Dave will shoot me, then I’ll shoot dave. Then Eric will enter and get shot by Dave, then you will walk in and get shot by Eric, Dave and I multiple times.
Love, your brother,
Keith
P.S: Then two cops will read this letter and shoot eachother.
Speak for Yourself is the second solo album of former Frou Frou singer Imogen Heap. Her powerful voice combines on a top level with the music consisting of electronic soundscapes. Some songs are synth pop sounding quite commercial others are more experimental. Heap produced, recorded, arranged, mixed, and designed the cover art on her own.
To my absolute shame, I slept on this at the time. Largely on the assumption, based purely on her name alone that it would be bland singer songwriterly crap. I COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG. This is intensely emotional, wildly innovative electronic pop that still sounds years ahead of it's peers. Absolutely brilliant and I am so happy to have been proven utterly wrong and a shallow, judgemental fraud.
I wrote a while thing about the mid-to-late- twenty ought vibe surrounding how I first heard Heap's music (on a compilation disk called Art of Chill 2 I got as a digital download as an Musica subscriber in their Indie-only days), and accidentally backed out of and lost it. Anyway pretty amazing talent, lyrically she paints a compelling picture of herself as a scary but exciting girlfriend.
Mm what you say. Mm what you say. Mmm what you mm what you mm what you mm what mm what mm mm mm what you say. Mm that you only meant well…..Got ourselves a bloodbath.
The albums fine. The OC made it relevant. SNL made it famous. 4.5/10
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