Singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner is about to hit the road with a new tour and best of album.

And after 12 years in the business, he is looking for a new sound but admits the thought is quite terrifying.

Glasgow is the only Scottish stop on the tour and rounds off the eleven show tour, a series of performances Newton is very much looking forward to.

He said: “For the last album we did a three-month tour of the UK which is pretty much unheard of. We played everywhere, loads of small the places people don’t usually play.

“This tour is a shorter run but of much bigger gigs, which I’m really looking forward to. It's made me kind of reanalyse my set up a bit, I've learned to programme some of my own equipment a bit more. I've always multi-tasked a bit and I've done it some very subtle ways and some very obvious ways, but I don’t think anyone’s really ever noticed.

“I’ve taken multi-tasking further than I ever have before, but watching someone multitasking for two hours can get a bit boring, so I’m also trying to strip things back further than I ever have.”

His sixth studio album, The Very Best of (So Far) includes fan favourites and rounds up his journey so far.

Newton said: “For me it’s been kind of one musical journey from Hand Built by Robots right up to Hit the Ground Running. I was trying to find a sound, and I feel like I’ve done that.

"This feels like a chapter in my musical history, it feels different, like the start of something new. It sounds kind of terrifying but by doing this I’ve had to force myself to have to do something completely different, which is so fun.”

The album boasts a 31-track listing across two discs and features three new tracks and covers of songs Newton regularly performs live, including Bohemian Rhapsody and Send Me on My Way: “I had so much fun doing the covers, probably a lot more doing production doing the covers than I did making the last album.

“I love music, I love doing what I do and I think that makes it quite easy in a lot of ways because it’s really fun, and I think I naturally, without having to put in a massive amount of effort, put my own spin on everything that I do. I think everything just sounds like me.”

The three new tracks on the album come as a nice surprise for fans and allow Newton to continue sharing his life as he moves forward into a new chapter.

“I'm quite honest about what’s going on in my life there’s one track on the Best of that’s gonna be quite hard to sing on a regular basis because it’s kind of heart-breaking, it’s heart-breaking for me, he added.

“I very much try to put my mind as deep into where I was when I was writing it as possible. It's just being honest, otherwise what would be the point? I don’t wanna just make noise, that’s not the point of music for me. For me it’s a form of communication and I think if you’re not communicating an idea then it doesn’t make sense to me.”

The first single from the album, Don’t Leave Me Waiting is brought to life in an artistic music video that sees Faulkner covered in multi-coloured pain.

He added: “The video was hard work, it was reversed and it was the first time I had done it. I didn’t have that long to work on it but learning to sync songs backwards so they look like they’re going forwards is incredibly difficult.”

Newton has his sights set firmly on the future. Currently half way through writing his next album, he has some creative ideas on how he could give even more to his fans:

“Making music without people listening to it is quite depressing. That people listen to it is amazing, it’s a really beautiful thing. My favourite songs I’ve done in the past are always the really weird ones, I might make a ‘best of’ Spotify playlist and just put all the songs that definitely wouldn’t have fit on this album because they’re too weird.”

The Very Best of (So Far) will be released Friday. He plays Glasgow's Old Fruitmarket on Monday May 6.