Lady GaGa has announced details of her new studio album, titled Joanne, her first record in three years since ARTPOP came out. Her fourth album will be released on October 21st, via Interscope / Streamline.

The 30 year old pop icon revealed the news in an interview with Zane Lowe on Beats 1 radio today (September 15th), and explained that the record is named after her late aunt, who died at the age of 19 from lupus.

Joanne is also Lady Gaga’s actual middle name (she was born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta), and her parents own an Italian restaurant in New York City called Joanne Trattoria. The record’s artwork and sleeve notes also contain Joanne’s own handwriting, as well as images of objects from her life.

Lady GagaLady Gaga at East London's Moth Club for a surprise set in September 2016

It comes six days after Gaga dropped her brand new single, ‘Perfect Illusion’, which serves as the lead track from Joanne.

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That track was written in collaboration with Mark Ronson and Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, with Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme on guitar, and just like ‘Perfect Illusion’, the album itself also features a host of guest stars and hook-ups. The likes of Father John Misty, Beck, Florence Welch (of Florence + The Machine) and songwriter Hillary Lindsey have all taken part in the recording of Joanne.

Speaking to Lowe, Gaga said that although the album’s tracklisting currently stood at 12 songs, it might eventually be cut to 11, with an additional three songs making up the deluxe edition.

The star unveiled some of the new songs during a surprise set in the early hours of Saturday morning (September 10th) in front of stunned club-goers in East London’s Moth Club – by far the smallest venue she’s played in the English capital.

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