Glasgow songstress Siobhan Wilson stopped being negative – and talked herself into making her most personal album yet.

The indie artist will release her second album There Are No Saints on July 14, and will preview tracks from it tomorrow night at the Glad Café.

For Siobhan, the new record is one that hits close to home, dealing with affairs of the heart and questioning her religion, among other topics.

“It will sound really cheesy, but normally I’m hard on myself and will pick holes in everything,” says Siobhan.

“There’s kind of an idea and mentality in Scotland that you need to be like that if you’re going to get better, but I feel with this album I wasn’t as scared as to what people would think as much. It was like giving myself a talk in the mirror, saying that I shouldn’t worry about what people would think and just to be brave, and expose all these vulnerabilities and subjects I wouldn’t talk about before.

“It feels like I have been a new level of honest.”

Born in Elgin, Siobhan previously lived in France, and sings in French on a couple of the new tracks. She’s now living in the West End in Glasgow, after a few years that saw her perform under the name Ella the Bird, release a debut album called Songs and a couple of EP’s.

Now the songbird seems to have found her voice more than ever, with There Are No Saints featuring haunting vocals, often recorded in one take, and beautifully delicate arrangements.

“There’s songs on there that were written two or three years ago, and they’ve been in and out the dryer and changed colour a few times, before going back to their original form again,” says Siobhan.

“They’ve been on a weird journey and had different arrangements, but ended up really simple in the end. Things like Dear God were just guitar and vocal, Whatever Helps was just one and something like Make You Mine was the same, it was about the live performance happening in the studio as well.”

One theme running through the album, produced by Catholic Action’s Chris McCrory, is religion. Siobhan was brought up in a Catholic family, but admits that even as a child she was always asking questions.

“I think everyone I’ve met goes through transitions with faith,” she says.

“It’s too easy to blame religion for things, because everything does come from within yourself. I’ve always been the sort who questioned everything – I remember asking my dad how cavemen could have been around millions of years ago but created in a week at the same time. I think he told me to go and ask my mum…

“I teach one day a week and I think it’s great that kids ask questions. If you’re not questioning everything around you then you can become too numb to life.”

The album will be released through Scottish indie label Song By Toad, and Siobhan’s pleased to be previewing it at the Glad Café, a regular haunt of hers.

“When I first moved back to Glasgow they were really encouraging, and I’d do open mic nights there. I think it’s really cool that Shawlands has a venue like that and places like that are popping up there now.”

Although she is currently happy in Glasgow, Siobhan is clearly a travelling spirit. She’s already thinking about her next move.

“I’m quite nomadic, so I like going to new places all the time,” she says.

“I need a constant change of scenery to get new ideas – some people like to redecorate their house but I need a new landscape, and to discover some new music!

“For a while I was obsessed with the idea of living on an island, but I’ve gone off that completely. I’ve got a few ideas about where to go next though.”

Siobhan Wilson, Glad Café, tomorrow, £12.50, 7pm