I was super impressed with Jack Davies‘ solo set at Dashville Skyline a few months back and I’m loving this new single ‘Clothes Peg‘, out today.

There’s a sensitive and baroque folk rock quality to the song, with jazz/art-pop leanings that create the dreamy loose knit, inquisitive and rambling feel to the song. Kinda like Big Thief on a lazy wander with Robert Wyatt.

“‘Clothes Peg’ is about uncertainty, change and wonder. It was written about being in the depths of a confusing and difficult time in life. My desk has a window facing a tree, a clothesline and a brick wall. The wind would come through and make these things move and leaves blow around. The song is a musing on that imagery, connecting it to the feeling of being stuck and wanting to find a way to move forward. The answer is blowing in the wind, but the wind is chaotic and hard to follow. I don’t want to just let it dry me out, I want to find a way to go along with it, move at the same pace as the crazy hectic tornado that life can often amount to.”

The single comes from the new Jack Davies and The Bush Chooks album The Nighttime, The Wind, The Crocodile, out February 1st.