NERINA Pallot invites you to forget what you thought you knew about the 40-year-old London musician as she makes her way to The Duchess in York on Sunday.

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.

Much has changed between 2001's debut, Dear Frustrated Superstar, and 2015's The Sound And Fury, which prompted the above advice. To describe Nerina's latest album as a departure from its four predecessors is too tame a way to say she has altered. When she calls it her mid-life crisis album, she’s only half joking. When she shrugs and says it isn’t her happiest collection of songs, she isn’t kidding.

The Sound And The Fury is an album of stories, from the city, from inside Nerina’s mind, from weeks spent glued to the news. It deals with love, loss and survival as much as any heartbreak record. It presents one woman and her fears for her family, reflecting on where the world is at right now and where it will be in the future.

The support slot at Sunday's 7.30pm show goes to Samuel Taylor. Box office: theduchess.co.uk