Megan Washington is about to do a five date tour around the country leading to her forthcoming album "There There" in September.

The 14 songs on the album are inspired by lush new-romantic '80s pop and might be as infectious as ever, but lyrically stick to the truth. As Megan explains, every song is a real story, and every lyric is about someone real. "In my mind, every single one of these songs has a name in brackets afterwards," she says. "The people in the songs know who they are. I certainly do." If I Believe You Liar was the diary of a wide-eyed youth dizzy with romance, There There is the chronicle of a woman discovering the moral complexities of love - with hooks to spare.

After touring ARIA Award winning I Believe You Liar, starring in a film (Michael Kantor's The Boy Castaways) and a stint in New York, Megan found herself in London. One day, by chance, she ran into songwriter/bassist/producer Sam Dixon (Sia, Adele), who she'd met when supporting Sia on tour. For kicks, the two co-wrote a song, and immediately felt something special was there. After returning to London in 2013, Megan and Sam got to work.

"I wrote all the songs I was afraid to write," she says. "I wrote about living with anxiety, bad sex, being unfaithful, how much I loved the person I was unfaithful to, waking up in hospital, the heart-cracking sadness at the end of a party, being reckless and selfish and losing my best friend. I told the truth, as best I remember."

MEGAN WASHINGTON

Single - 'Limitless' - out now

Album - 'There There' out September

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