Clint Wilson People Don't Think Like Us

In recent years, Clint Wilson has become a name associated with authenticity and compelling storytelling. Today he releases his new single, 'People Don't Think Like Us' - further testament to the Melbourne native's fast-growing reputation. This release is the first since Wilson's sophomore album, Another Death in The Family, which debuted at #2 on the iTunes Country Albums chart and reached #12 on the ARIA Australian Country Albums chart.

The thoughtful new single opens on a lonesome slide guitar. As the track progresses it grows, like a truck slowly picking up speed, growling down an empty highway like a juggernaut in the dead of night. The folk, alt-country maestro calls it "a step in a new direction". The song paints a portrait of a tired Wilson, yearning for change – "it's a song about moving away from the city out to the country, realising that everybody thinks differently and that's not a bad thing," he professes. The musical direction may be darker compared with his more spirited releases like 'Family Tree' and 'Teeth in Me', yet Wilson's incredible ability to communicate a narrative with poetry and charm still shines on this latest offering.

'People Don't Think Like Us' was co-written with Coffs Harbour artist Billie-Jo Porter, while the song was produced on the other side of the world by Grammy nominee Callum Barter (Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile). "I helped him build his home studio a few years back," remarks Wilson. "And we had planned to catch up and check out the finished space. I thought why not record a track while I'm there." Wilson plans to return to Barter's Los Angeles studio later in 2022 to continue recording his next album.

The accompanying video depicts a guitar builder and friend of Wilson's "working in his own different way." Beautifully presented in black and white, the luthier meticulously handcrafts a guitar while taking the occasional pause to dance eccentrically around workshop, a half-burnt cigarette dangling from his lips. Wilson enlisted Glenn Triggs to shoot and direct the video, knowing "his way of capturing the quirkiness of things would work perfectly in the clip."

'People Don't Think Like Us' takes us inside the mind of a masterful storyteller, justifiably compared to the likes of Paul Kelly and Crowded House. With his compelling change in direction, he's once again "breathed new life into the incredibly competitive Australian country scene" (Forte Magazine). The songwriter possesses a sensibility that proves the future of Australian alt-country is indeed in good hands and perhaps we should all be thinking a little more like Clint Wilson.