Forget what you thought you knew about Nerina Pallot. Begin by tearing up the singer/songwriter tag that’s usually attached to her music. Or better still, burn it. Put the Ivor Novello and Brit Award-nominated piano ballads of the past to one side. Grab the joyous groove of 2011’s Bernard Butler-produced hit Put Your Hands Up and stamp it in to the ground. That heavenly voice? Give it some grit.
The Sound And The Fury is an album as tempestuous as its title suggests. It’s a bold, bluesy, Biblical storm, in turns restless, aggressive and defiant. Its atmosphere crackles with electronics, death and despair hang in the air and stacked strings stalk and soar. These are songs in which space is as vital as sound, in which textures matter as much as melodies, in which the lyrics creep up and soak in through your skin. From the crackling, menacing electro-blues of opener This Is A Drum to spectral, reflective, electro-classical closer The Longest Memory, The Sound And The Fury is as beguiling beautiful as it is disturbingly dark.
The album was launched with The Road – a hard hitting and topical video in which filmmaker Damian Weiler Interpreted the song’s lyrics his own way. Shot in Calais it is a frank, impartial document of his experience, highlighting not only the desperate circumstances of the migrant camps but the sense of community they have managed to pull together in spite of their plight. Watch the video for ‘The Road’ here
The album is available in a number of different formats. CD, vinyl and a collectors box set can be pre-ordered now from here with the deluxe digital version available from http://smarturl.it/iTunes-Deluxe
The first live show announced is at The Scala, London on September 17th 2015
Tickets are on sale from 9am on Friday July 31st and available here
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