It’s not everyday you meet someone as comfortable discussing the merits of postcolonial literature as they are in championing their admiration for peak-PWL period Kylie Minogue, but then it’s not everyday a talent as genuine and uncompromised as Nerina Pallot emerges from the sea of production line pop.

Attentive students of the airwaves will already know Nerina’s name from her on-off flirtations with the charts over the past decade or more recently her songwriting credits for the likes of Miss Minogue. But that’s only part of the story – as her new album The Year Of The Wolf resolutely displays.

Produced entirely with Britpop guitar legend Bernard Butler, The Year Of The Wolf is, simply put, the accumulation of Nerina’s talents honed over the years. It runs the gamut of Nerina’s love of euphoric pop songs with big heart-bursting choruses like lead single Put Your Hands Up to sweeping, classical rhapsodies like History Boys - bridging the gap between pop and art that has often confounded her audience.