Nerina Pallot’s new album out on Friday – listen to some of the tracks here

• Jersey’s Nerina Pallot releasing fifth album on Friday
• Watch videos for two new songs below, including one filmed at the Calais migrant camp
• Nerina Pallot will be co-hosting the JEP’s Pride of Jersey Awards later this month
• Find out more about the singer below

JERSEY singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot’s fifth studio album will be released this Friday.

The former JCG student has released four albums in the past 14 years, and her latest, The Sound and the Fury, is expected to have more of an electronic sound than her previous releases.

The singer, who will be co-hosting the Jersey Evening Post’s first Pride of Jersey Awards on Wednesday 23 September, has been working on the record for the past two years.

Commenting on the new release, the Ivor Novello and Brit Award-nominated singer said: ‘Although The Sound and the Fury is my fifth album, I still get nervous about releasing new music.

‘It’s the culmination of two years of steadily working in the studio and trying to make something that challenged me to try new things and push myself as an artist.

‘I guess it’s the darkest album I’ve made, in terms of subject matter and sound, but I’m really proud of it and feel that it has been a natural progression from the more organic records I have made before.

‘I just wanted to make a record that was heartfelt and real but reflected a lot of the music I listen to and am passionate about.

‘Hopefully, I’ve managed to do that.’

Her previous album, 2011’s Year of the Wolf, reached number 31 in the UK Album Chart and the video for its debut single, Put Your Hands Up, received almost 70,000 YouTube views within 24 hours of going online.

The Sound and the Fury is due to be released on Friday but is available to pre-order on Amazon and iTunes.

You can visit Nerina’s official website here

Rousseaux:

The Road:

Commenting on the video for new song The Road, which was filmed at the Calais migrant camp, Nerina said:

‘The Road is a song about self-determination and I did not write it with the topic of immigration in mind.

‘When Director Damian Weilers came to me with the idea of using The Road as a soundtrack to the plight of those displaced in Calais, I knew that this could be a platform to focus attention on an issue we both felt was important.

‘To me, this isn’t a political issue – it is a humanitarian one. While European governments argue, the pressure increases.

‘On borders, on local communities, on lorry drivers who find themselves unwittingly carrying human cargo – but most of all, on those who have become stateless and desperate.

‘Damian went to Calais with an open mind and came away moved by the kindness and openness of people who have nothing and just want the chance to work for a better life.

‘People who for a myriad of reasons find the place they once called home unstable and dangerous, and that to stay would mean risking their lives.

‘My mother and her family came here from India in the 1960s, and were able to make a life; to get an education, work and contribute to society.

‘As the product of British multiculturalism, when I see migrants, I see hope and hard work. But most of all I see humans, like you and I.’

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, ‘I’m 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 Valentine’s Day 2007
• Immediately after the ceremony the newlyweds headed to Earl’s Court for the Brit Awards, where Nerina was up for Best Female.
• Nerina was educated at St Christopher’s School – where she first met Andrew – then St George’s and Jersey College for Girls.

• She went on to study art at Chelsea Art College, then music at City and Guildhall.
• She released her first album, Dear Frustrated Superstar, in 2001.
• She re-mortgaged her flat to fund her follow-up, Fires. Released in 2005 it sold more than 200,000 copies and featured her most successful single to date, Everybody’s Gone To War, which charted at number 14.
• Her third album, The Graduate, was released in September 2009.
• She released her fourth album, Year of the Wolf, in 2011 and it charted at number 31.
• 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 couple’s tracks.
• Her 2011 single Put Your Hands Up, has a video that was filmed in just one take. It received nearly 900,000 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’.