ALISON Moyet plays a sold-out York Barbican concert on Sunday night as the only Yorkshire date of her British and Irish autumn tour promoting her June album, Other.

Once one half of Yazoo with Vince Clarke, Moyet returned to those electronic days on her last Barbican visit in October 2013 in the wake of that year's studio album, The Minutes.

The catalyst for this year's new record was Moyet's already fruitful alliance with producer and songwriting collaborator Guy Sigsworth, who previously worked with Björk, Goldie and Madonna and co-created The Minutes, a record that reached number five in the British charts.

Outlining the creative process behind Other, Moyet says: “For me, making a record at this age, lyrically, is a different proposition. Observation in most cases replaces emotion. The invisibility of middle-aged woman rather thrills me and instead I watch. Subject matter covers what you might expect from a pop album. Dyslexia, locked-out syndrome, diversity, Persephone, doggedness and the Internet.

"Always asked what a song is about, I attempted to cooperate, but in truth though the lyrics incorporated my best attempt to describe what I see and of the meaning that is mine, I want, who chooses to, to find their own landscape or indeed none. Some of us have always felt 'Other'. I no longer wish it were otherwise.”

Favouring an electronic soundscape once more, Moyet's new tracks include the zingy Lover, Go; the chic soundtrack-style The English U; a nod to her rock'n'roll roots, Beautiful Gun; the icily Germanic arpeggios of Reassuring Pinches and the ambient, spoken-word poem April 10th.

Aside from making Other, Moyet has been busy with another form of creativity, studying sculpture at college, and among other happenings of note since The Minutes, she has received an Icon Award at Nordoff Robbins Silver Clef Awards and given a hot-ticket performance with a 32-piece orchestra at Burberry’s London Fashion Week womenswear show.

Last year, Moyet composed and performed a new arrangement of Sigh No More Ladies, from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing for a BBC 2 live special as part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's celebration of the Bard's 400th anniversary.

Doors open at 7pm for Sunday's 8pm start.