KT Tunstall suffered "confidence crash"

KT Tunstall has revealed that she suffered a "massive confidence crash" before recording her new album.

The singer, who releases her third LP Tiger Suit later this month, admitted that she almost quit the industry after she stopped believing in her own music following a conservation gig in Greenland.

"I was living on a boat with 20 brilliant scientists and 20 fantastic artists - Jarvis Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Leslie Feist, Martha Wainwright, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Creative-wise, a bloody nightmare," she told The Scotsman.

"I ended up having a huge battle over where I sat in the panoply and suffered a massive confidence crash.

"Everyone else seemed so stellar, all of them big-hitters who were drawing from a much deeper well than me, this little jingle writer with her frivolous pop songs. I desperately didn't want to be there."

The 'Black Horse and a Cherry Tree' singer said that despite feeling low on the trip it forced her to rethink her sound, which helped create her latest record.

She continued: "It was like I was holding up this very stark mirror - just awful. Afterwards, back in the crowd, I felt really empty. When music is the thing you're really passionate about, that's bloody scary.

"I got home thinking that if I was ever going to record again, I really had to do something different. For me, that trip was a serendipitous kick up the arse."

KT Tunstall releases Tiger Suit on September 27.