Have a listen to the third album from Merrill Garbus and let us know what you think in the comments below

We've admired Tune-Yards, aka Merrill Garbus, since her debut album, Bird-Brain, received five stars from the Guardian in 2009. Its follow-up, whokill, was voted No 10 in our best albums of 2011. Which means, frankly, we're excited about her third album, Nikki Nack, to be released on 4AD on Monday 5 May.

So what to expect? "I felt dried up at the end of whokill," she told Fact recently. "The ideas just weren’t flowing the way that they were earlier in my life. I had to let go of what whokill was, because I found myself wanting to please. I needed to step away and decide to do something new – not trash everything, but push myself in new directions and trust that my audience would come with me. And that was a terrifying leap.”

And has it worked? Have a listen and let us know.