Watch Tim Wheatley's Video For Contemplative New Single 'Better Days'

Alt folk-rock singer-songwriter Tim Wheatley is in the midst of quite the busy spell in the wake of releasing new album Pillar To Post, having just knocked over an appearance at the Gympie Music Muster this weekend past ahead of a couple of upcoming shows in Melbourne and Sydney.

Before he hits southern stages, though, the troubadour has unveiled the video clip for his contemplative, countrified new single Better Days, premiering today on theMusic.com.au.

The song is a thoughtfully executed ditty that ambles along amiably with a bounce in its step, Wheatley's husky voice sitting pleasantly atop the easygoing soundscape.

According to the muso, who recorded much of the album in Los Angeles, Better Days and the album from which its taken was impacted in ways he did not foresee by the change in scenery.

"Pillar To Post is certainly a collection of songs born of harder times than my debut," he said in a statement. "The influence Los Angeles has had on my music came in ways I didn’t expect.

"Rather than painting a sun-drenched California, I found myself reaching for home in Australia. I was writing songs about the road when I was at home, and songs about home when I was out on the road. I found myself losing the battle with the tyranny of distance and was having an ongoing arm-wrestle with life’s guilty pleasures. The sheer brutality of the 'LA hustle' was very hard to come to grips with — I found the highs were high, and the lows were low, and there was absolutely nothing in-between."

The 10-track album is out now through Sony Music Australia.

Tim Wheatley will play the John Curtin Bandroom in Melbourne this Saturday, 2 September, and heads to Sydney's Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar on Friday 8 September.

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