Folk Bitch Trio – Now Would Be A Good Time

Folk music has a bad habit of being presented as a deathly serious concern. It's something you cry to, it's overly sacred, it's

solemnly considered by critic-historians. But Folk Bitch Trio, former high school friends Heide Peverelle (they/them), Jeanie

Pilkington (she/her) and Gracie Sinclair (she/her), have a shared sense of humour that is embedded deep in their music,

and that sets it alight, safe from the self-serious traps of the genre.

Now Would Be A Good Time, their debut album, tells vivid, visceral stories, and is funny and darkly ironic in the manner

of writers like Mary Gaitskill or Otessa Moshfegh. Their music sounds familiar, but the songs are modern, youthful,

singing acutely through dissociative daydreams and galling breakups, sexual fantasies and media overload, all the petty

resentments and minor humiliations of being in your early twenties in the 2020s. "Cathode Ray" opens with caution, its first

harmonies arriving in big, looping sighs.

Folk Bitch Trio have already toured across Australia, Europe and the US, supporting bands as disparate as King Gizzard, Alex G and

Julia Jacklin. They've signed with Jagjaguwar, a home for singular icons and iconoclasts (Bon Iver, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten,

UMO and others), and they've found their first diehard fans with dazzling harmonies and acerbic lyricism that transcend genre

expectations and audience lines. These are the stakes: Learning how to live a life free of lovesickness and loser exes, when to sink

into contemporary nihilism and when to have a laugh with your friends, and why being alive can feel so ephemeral and unreal. In this

sense, Now Would Be A Good Time feels like a manual for modern living: a missive from three proud Folk Bitches finding beauty and

wisdom where they can, together.