Tunstall feeds off travel experiences

When KT Tunstall reveals that her musical heroes are Chrissy Hynde and PJ Harvey (her first name is Katie, but she calls herself KT in honor of the latter), it makes sense.

The gritty and uncompromising singer-songwriter operates in the same manner as her favorites.

Tunstall, who will perform tonight at the Theatre of the Living Arts, pulls no punches during interviews or in song.

When her record label told her to drop out of sight and focus on writing her next album after touring behind 2007's "Drastic Fantastic," Tunstall admitted that she was a bit nervous.

"I got into a bit of a panic," she says. "Around that time, you had female artists like Lily Allen and Florence and the Machine doing really well. I thought that if I drifted off, the door would close behind me."

It obviously didn't, but Tunstall did drift off to the Arctic in September 2008 with a number of like-minded quirky recording artists, such as Jarvis Cocker, Robyn Hitchcock and Martha Wainwright.

The trip was designed to inspire.

"But there were too many people on the trip," Tunstall says. "I did enjoy it. It was so beautiful."

The creative process was only beginning. She and husband Luke Bullen, who is also her drummer, followed the Arctic excursion with a jaunt to India, Chile and New Zealand, among other locales.

The experiences compelled her to write 75 songs. Eleven of those cuts made her latest album, "Tiger Suit," which dropped in September.

"I felt very liberated by traveling," she says. "It was amazing. I came back writing. I think I have another album in there."

Before Tunstall works on a new disc, she's touring behind "Tiger Suit," which is full of her finest songs to date. She moves in different directions with each song, having no problem going from folk to funk within the same song, and her lyrics are moving and clever.

The brassy Scot has really found her groove.

Tunstall, who made a splash on the charts courtesy of the hit "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" in 2006, has never repeated herself.

"I don't see the point," she says.

"Tiger Suit," which was recorded in Berlin at the Hansa studio, where U2 recorded "Achtung Baby" and the David Bowie cut "Heroes," is her most polished disc to date.

"I think it's fine to try different things," she says. "It might sound a little different this time, but you can still tell it's me."

KT Tunstall appears tonight at the Theatre of the Living Arts, 334 South St., Philadelphia. Show time: 8. Tickets: $20. Information: 215-922-1011.

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