Nerina Pallot makes a triumphant return this month with new single 'Real Late Starter' (Echo/Chrysalis). Already storming to being 'Single of the week' on Radio 2 and reaching the A playlist, Real Late Starter is the first glimpse of Nerina's brilliant new album The Graduate. The new single was produced by Nerina herself and mixed by Andy Chatterley. Mastering was by John Webber at Blue Pro Mastering.

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More than three years after the gold-selling Fires, Nerina Pallot has shaken up her sound, shrugged off the spectre of singer/songwriter and produced an album of clever, classy pop. The Graduate has piano-driven songs high on happy pills, woozy electronics and beefed up bass. Where guitars would once have swooned, now they swagger and there is a new-found feistiness to Pallot’s emotive vocals. Occasionally, the Brit and Ivor Novello-nominated singer strays so far from the haunting sound of her former hit singles, she is almost unrecognisable. Sometimes, she pulls off a ballad of such breathtaking beauty it could be by no-one else.

Self-produced and recorded in the North London studio she shares with her husband, Grammy-nominated producer Andrew Chatterley, The Graduate took shape after two turbulent years in Pallot’s life. The first found her struggling with any sustained creativity in the midst of the promotion and touring in support of Fires. The second was a case of writer’s block caused by meeting and marrying Chatterley, who hails from Pallot’s homeland of Jersey. The problem was one not often found in pop – she was too content to want to write songs.

Real Late Starter sets sassy, self-depreciating lyrics to uptempo piano-pop that nods to ‘70s Elton John and one of Pallot’s more recent favourite bands, Scissor Sisters. “I had so much fun when I came to finish that song because by then I was happy. There’s a real sense of ‘Yeah, sometimes life is s--t, but hey, I’m actually doing okay’. Everyone feels like that from time to time and when I play it live, people love it. They seem to get it straight away.”

“When I first released Fires, I had to remortgage my house to pay for it, and as a result felt under a lot of self-imposed pressure. With The Graduate, there was no pressure at all. It’s just me having fun and I think you can hear that in the music.”

For more information on Nerina Pallot please visit her website and make sure you get to see her live.