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Folk Bitch Trio announce debut album, Now Would Be A Good Time & share new single/video ‘Cathode Ray’

Folk Bitch Trio — the Melbourne/Naarm-based band of Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them) — announce their debut album, Now Would Be A Good Time, out July 25 via Jagjaguwar, and release the single/video, ‘Cathode Ray.’ Now Would Be A Good Time tells vivid, visceral stories. Their music sounds familiar, built on a foundation of the music they’ve loved throughout their lives–gnarled Americana, classic rock, piquant, and clear-eyed balladry. Yet the songs are modern and youthful, with the trio singing acutely through dissociative daydreams, galling breakups, sexual fantasies and media overload— all the petty resentments and minor humiliations of being in your early twenties in the 2020s.

Listening to Folk Bitch Trio, it’s clear this is a band of three distinct points of view. Pilkington grew up with two musician parents and brings formative memories of watching them perform, of listening to Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams, and of her own imagined path as a career musician. Peverelle spends their spare time making art and furniture; those hobbies, as well as their love of pop music old and new, articulate a love for the tactile, the home-grown and the hand-made. Sinclair is the self-proclaimed jester of the group, but her taste skews dark, gothic, baroque and dramatic, expressed as a love of opera and ballet as well as musicians as wide-ranging as Patti Smith, Nirvana and Tchaikovsky. They’ve known each other since high school, and as soon as they started singing together five years ago, “the chemistry of being inspired by each other was evident from the get-go,” says Sinclair.

Following the “acidic and gorgeous” (Beats Per Minute) lead single ‘The Actor,’ new single, ‘Cathode Ray,’ opens with caution, its first harmonies arriving in big, looping sighs. It’s vulnerable but a little menacing, with a wide open chorus and a spacious, airy beat anchoring everything. Lyrically, the song is about bodily, deeply human anxieties. “It expresses a feeling of being trapped in myself, and wanting to break out of that so violently that I’m literally talking about opening up a body viscerally,” Sinclair explains. “It’s about frustration, and knowing there’s no cheap thrill that’s going to fix that.”

Now Would Be A Good Time:

  1. God’s A Different Sword
  2. Hotel TV
  3. The Actor
  4. Moth Song
  5. I’ll Find A Way (To Carry It All)
  6. Cathode Ray
  7. Foreign Bird
  8. That’s All She Wrote
  9. Sarah
  10. Mary’s Playing The Harp

Photo credit: Bridgette Winten

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