Fish Bowl is a deeply personal album, Davis charts its path through the eyes of Fish Bowl’s central character “FiBo”. Now she shares the particularly poignant track, ‘Long Long Long’, which was co-written with Oli Deakin of Low Pines. Driving guitars lay the foundation for this indie-rock-meets-sci-fi track as Davis takes the meticulousness from her years in the jazz world and applies it here, much like John Coltrane’s spiritually-guided path, to an otherworldly place where rules don’t matter.

“Oli sent me a super sad instrumental at exactly the right moment” Davis comments. “I was doing a lot of thinking and grieving in the aftermath of a breakup and felt incredibly comforted by this sonic world that he had built. It opened up an opportunity to flow in a stream of consciousness way over a landscape that was far more spacious than what I would have come up with. I just remember plugging in my mic, blinking, and the song was finished.

“This song longs less for a person, and more for answers. It starts the second half of the album, right after the lowest point in the FiBo story. This is the “back in the saddle“ moment. There’s an insatiable craving for clarity and destination. I think that’s why I was so attached to the visual of driving endlessly through the night. Time is explicitly described, but in the same breath, it means nothing.

“LLL references three songs that were anchors for memories and markers of time in my life. Barenaked Ladies – One Week, Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head, and Failure – Stuck On You. Out of all the songs on Fish Bowl, I might be attached to this one the most. It helped me tease out some personal desires and truths”

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Along with news of Spring UK and European live dates, she has shared the melancholic, slow-building new single ‘Call Home,’ which is what Davis calls her “big pandemic feelings song.” Processing isolation from the confines of a bedroom in her mother’s house, Davis describes the “kind of disorientation of things not ending up the way that you thought they would.”

She adds: “That song felt to me like writing my own little sci-fi tale — an apocalyptic romance of these unknown characters. It was a dialogue between me — or FiBo — and another figure who represents an escape from purgatory.”

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‘Monster Mash’ was one of the first songs that was written for the record,” Davis explains. “This is the moment where the character is abandoned by everything that she knew. And there’s this feeling of isolation in living your life up to a point where you’re like, ‘This is what I’ve chosen.’ But when you transition into a different phase of life, it’s easy to feel like a monster, to feel like you’re harmful to people, or that people are fearful of you.” 
 
Fish Bowl:

1. Monster Mash
2. Call Home
3. Fructify
4. Consequences
5. People Are Doing
6. Ride or Die
7. yoyo
8. Long Long Long
9. dd
10. Saw You Staring
11. Fish Bowl
12. Reckoning

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A ruminative, diaristic song, Davis considers the results of a lifetime of choices on ‘Consequences’ and lets them wash over her. “I experienced a major low point in 2020, tangled up in a chaotic love affair where I really met myself,” she says. “It’s about a very peculiar kind of heartbreak and betrayal where you’re at the mercy of your “other.”

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