Tapping into difficult emotions every evening might not sound a particularly fun experience.

Canadian songstress Basia Bulat seems to be coping nicely with it, though.

The singer has spent several months touring her self-described ‘heartbreak album’, Good Advice, the Toronto native’s fourth record and one that deals with a break-up and going through various changes in her life.

Yet the 32-year-old has been loving life back on the road.

“It’s so interesting because it changes so much every night,” she says, ahead of a Glasgow visit to Oran Mor on November 7 alongside the band Lake Street Dive.

“What I always find most exciting about singing is that even if there is a repetition to touring there is no actual routine when you are onstage. There’s an element there that you can’t control.

“Sometimes I feel like I can control my emotions when singing these songs or can take myself somewhere to get that energy, and then sometimes there are feelings or different images that come into my head from out of nowhere. That’s terrifying and also hard because I never know where that emotion might come from.”

Basia’s first three albums tended towards the folkier side of things. Although those roots still run through Good Advice, it’s also her most clear pop record, mixing warm and danceable melodies with lyrics describing heartbreak. It’s a combination that came about when the singer decided it was time to try something new.

She headed from her current home of Montreal to Louisville, Kentucky, working with producer Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket. And while she could have got a flight there, she decided to hit the open road, going on a 600 mile trip.

“I really needed to clear my head and be by myself,” she explains.

“It’s hard for me to be by myself a lot of the time because it’s not something I like - even though I know it’s good for me, I get afraid too. So that was something that I forced myself to do and I need to do it more often.

“That drive down is so interesting because you’re going through all these cities that used to be home to the automobile industry. That’s where my family worked a lot of the time, so it kinda felt like I was going through where my family had come through, and then getting to a new place.”

Once in Louisville, she pulled together a group of musicians from local bands and set out to make an album different from anything she’d made before, something equally inspired by the indie pop of alternative acts like Beach House as by folk music.

It also created a contrast, where a selection of cheerful tunes are paired with painful words.

“The songs felt more true that way,” she adds.

“I wrote a lot of the songs quite slow, with maybe just organ and vocals or guitar and vocals, but once we started actually recording a song like Long Goodbye as a piano balled, it just felt insincere. It just didn’t seem right, so it felt a lot more real if it was something that you could dance your tears away to.

“There’s an amazing song called Breakaway by Irma Thomas that’s sad but triumphant about not being able to get away from a horrible relationship. It feels a lot more real than if it were slowed down and that’s what I was wanting on these songs.”

The result is an album that’s been warmly received, and continued to establish Basia as one of Canada’s most talented singers, capable of pop, folk or singing the national anthem before an NHL game, as she’s done in the past.

However her musical career might never have launched itself if she hadn’t fallen in love with a certain band while at school…

“One of my favourite bands in high school was Belle & Sebastian,” she explains.

“What I loved about Belle and Sebastian was that it wasn’t very often that you saw a woman playing an instrument onstage and they had that (with Isobel Campbell).

“I love Primal Scream too – we just missed them playing in the park (at Kelvingrove) the last time I was in Glasgow, which sounded like it would have been amazing. Scotland’s so beautiful to visit – I had a day around Glasgow and ended up going into small bookstores and music shops.”

Basia Bulat, Oran Mor, November 7, £16.50, 7pm