- Nerina Pallot to release fifth studio album in September
- Watch the video for Nerina’s new single below
- The Sound and The Fury features the best songs from the singer’s year of releasing EPs
- Who is Nerina Pallot? Find out more below
JERSEY singer and songwriter Nerina Pallot has finished recording her new album, The Sound and the Fury, and has told listeners to expect a more electronic sound.
The former JCG student has already released four albums and her latest creation is due to be released in September.
Speaking about her latest release, the singer, who is also a JEP columnist and who will be co-hosting the newspaper’s first Pride of Jersey Awards next month, said: ‘I started working on the album around two years ago.
‘It has been very different to how I have done things in previous years.
‘I set myself a target of producing an EP every single month last year.
‘I had to write an awful lot and it was fairly time consuming.
‘But by doing it that way, I feel confident that it was the absolute best I could do and that I am not leaving any stone unturned.
‘The best track from each EP will feature on the new album.’
The Ivor Novello and Brit Award-nominated singer said that fans will notice that her fifth studio album has more of an electronic sound to her previous releases.
‘I would say that it has reached a crossover.
‘What may have been considered dance music in the past could now be considered as pop.
‘I really like James Blake and he has been quite influential as his music has become quite electronic too.’
The Islander added that although recording had now finished, there was no time to relax.
She said: ‘The next three months are all about promotion.
‘There will be lots of interviews on the radio, on TV shows, especially around the release next month.
‘Things will really start to happen over the coming weeks.’
The artist added that she had wanted to do something different for the music video for her latest single, The Road, which features footage from the migrant camps in Calais.
‘It is a bit more interesting that just standing there and singing,’ she said.
‘I worked with Damian Weilers, a journalistic filmmaker and he asked me if I would be interested in going to the Calais migrant camps for a week.
‘I think that often people do just see the people in Calais as immigrants who want to “Come over and rob us blind”.
‘People forget that they are actually humans and that they are usually fleeing awful situations in war-torn countries such as Afghanistan and Eritrea.
‘I think the video is all about keeping humanity in the midst of awful circumstances.
‘There is something about it, it is just more compelling than a normal music video.’
Nerina’s last album, Year of the Wolf, which was released in 2011, reached number 31 in the UK album charts and received glowing reviews from a number of national publications.
And the video for its debut single, Put Your Hands Up, received almost 70,000 YouTube views within 24 hours of going online thanks to a Twitter plug by then Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
Summing up her new album, the platinum-selling artist described the release as ‘quite epic and very dark’.
‘I would say that there is something for everybody,’ she said.
The Sound and the Fury is due to be released on 11 September and is currently available to pre-order on Amazon.
Nerina has released four studio albums to date:
Dear Frustrated Superstar (2001) was her debut album and peaked at number 82 in the Official Albums Chart.
Follow up Fires was released in 2005 but failed to gain commercial recognition. However, after being reissued in 2006 it peaked at number 21 in the Official Albums Chart. The album has been certified gold in the UK for sales of over 100,000 and earned Nerina a nomination at the 2007 Brit Awards for Best British Female. Lead single Everybody’s Gone to War remains her most successful hit to date, reaching number 14 in the Official Singles Chart.
The title of third album, The Graduate, (2009) referred to her graduation from university that year with a first-class honours English Literature degree.
Year of the Wolf (2011) was produced by Bernard Butler from Britpop band Suede and entered the Official Albums Chart at 31. The Guardian described it as a ‘mature, satisfying album that shows Pallot to be one of the country’s more able pop stars’.
- Nerina (41) was born in London but only because her mother was visiting family there at the time.
- She returned to Jersey at two weeks old and lived here until she was 18.
- She proudly describes herself as a St Ouennais and her grandparents ran the Trafalgar Bay Hotel in Gorey.
- She was encouraged into music by her mother, who had been a successful jazz singer in the 1970s.
- Nerina met Jersey-born record-producer Andrew Chatterley, an Old Victorian, in 2007 and immediately thought, Im going to marry this man. Half an hour later they were in the pub and he proposed to her and the couple married six weeks later on Valentines Day 2007
- Immediately after the ceremony the newlyweds headed to Earls Court for the Brit Awards, where Nerina was up for Best Female.
- Nerina was educated at St Christophers School where she first met Andrew then St Georges and Jersey College for Girls.
- She went on to study art at Chelsea Art College, then music at City and Guildhall.
- Nerina and Andrew had a son, Wolfgang Amadeus, in September 2010 and the family live in Camden, London.
- In 2010, Nerina and Andrew wrote hits for Kylie Minogue, with Kylie even naming her album, Aphrodite, after one of the couples tracks.
- Her 2011 single Put Your Hands Up, has a video that was filmed in just one take. It received nearly 70,000 YouTube views within 24 hours of going online, thanks to a plug on Twitter by Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
- Throughout 2014 she set herself the ambitious challenge of releasing an EP of new music every month. A track from one of the EPs was used on an international advertising campaign for Hyundai cars.
- She regularly returns to perform at the Jersey Opera House, which she describes as her favourite performing venue.
