From his days with Orange Juice to his solo gems, Edwyn Collins has long cut a distinctive dash in the worlds of British pop and indie – and he’s still at it, putting out his 10th solo album, Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation, on 14 March. As he prepares the release he’ll be joining us to answer your questions.

Now 65, Collins was born in Edinburgh and raised in Dundee, before he headed to Glasgow where he worked as an illustrator for the city’s parks department, drawing “chaffinches and squirrels and moorhens for park leaflets” he later remembered. But he was also frontman of the burgeoning band Orange Juice, who came to define a moment in Scottish indie-pop with spirited tunes such as Rip It Up, Blue Boy and Falling and Laughing (the latter one of Keir Starmer’s Desert Island Discs), topped by Collins’s untutored yet romantic croon.

After they split in 1986 Collins went solo. He will always be remembered for his Northern soul song of total infatuation, A Girl Like You, which became a global hit in 1995 – but his discography is full of other gems such as the 2002 LP Doctor Syntax. He suffered two strokes in 2005 which left him unable to speak for a time – save a handful of words, including “the possibilities are endless” – but he has recovered well enough to record another five albums since.

Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation is the latest of these, and the first since 2019, drawing its title from an old BBC motto. Collins will answer your questions on it and anything else in his career – post them in the comments below before Wednesday 26 February. His answers will be published on 7 March.