Year of the Wolf

Year of the Wolf is the fourth album by British singer-songwriter Nerina Pallot. It was released on 13 June 2011.^[1] The first single is the track Put Your Hands Up, which was originally written for inclusion on Kylie Minogue's Aphrodite album.^[2] Popjustice called the song "an understated yet PATENTLY BRILLIANT tune" and "highly addictive".^[3]

The album entered the UK albums charts at no.31.

Background and recording

After self-releasing her third album The Graduate, Nerina returned to a major label, Geffen Records, for the release of Year of the Wolf. The album's title comes from her son, Wolfie, with whom she was pregnant during the recording of the album. In an interview with the BBC, Nerina said that her pregnancy affected both the physical recording of the song, making it more difficult to sing, and also its emotional content, particularly the song "History Boys". Talking of that song, she said "there's a human sadness and tragedy at the heart of [war]. And that's what I was trying to describe in the song - loss. The senseless loss of young lives." On whether or not there was a thematic link between that and her anti-war song "Everybody's Gone to War", she said that "on a personal level, I feel less angry, more sad."^[4]

Reception

Track listing

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