There's a direct reference to Nina Simone and her classic Civil Rights song 'Mississippi Goddam' in Daddy's Home track 'The Melting Of The Sun'. 'It's like there's a ghost on her shoulder. 'I feel like Nina always has a very haunting quality to her voice, even on the kind of upbeat tunes,' Clark says. Nina Simone – 'Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood' Given the inspiration, Zan asked Annie to share five classics that inspired her new songs. My refuge was definitely imagining this completely other world.' I don't feel like I had anything to say about that. Not the world of like athleisure and Netflix and being trapped. 'I wanted to think about, write about, get lost in a completely different world. 'I have this feeling that, once it's over, we're all gonna have like cultural amnesia and never want to speak of it again. 'I wanted to make sure I didn't really write about the pandemic,' Clark said. What she didn't want to do was make a 'pandemic album'. 'People like Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Sly & the Family Stone, Lou Reed: they were writing great music that really was very sophisticated, but really spoke to the human condition in such a real way.' Loading.

'This little period of time in New York, where I felt like people were just like singing from the burned-out building. It was before the sort of like escapism of gay disco, or the nihilism of punk. After the flower children had their wiggly utopian ideas, the world was in tumult, there was an economic crisis, there was all kinds of cultural crises. 'Music that was made in downtown New York from 1971 to 1976. 'I just started going back to these records that I listened to more than anything,' she told Double J's Zan Rowe on the Take 5. Vincent, Annie Clark gravitated towards the records she'd grown up listening to. When making Daddy's Home, her sixth studio album as St. 'Great music that was very sophisticated, but spoke to the human condition in such a real way'

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