{"product_id":"folk-bitch-trio-now-would-be-a-good-time-cd","title":"Folk Bitch Trio - Now Would Be A Good Time (CD)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFolk 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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eFolk Bitch Trio\u003c\/b\u003e, former high school friends\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeide Peverelle\u003c\/b\u003e (they\/them),\u003cb\u003e Jeanie Pilkington\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(she\/her) and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eGracie Sinclair\u003c\/b\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow Would Be A Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e“\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCathode Ray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e” 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. “\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoth Song\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”, a song about unrequited love and “being so spun out by everything that you feel like you’re delusional and hallucinating crazy things,” forms the album’s spare centrepiece,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnita Clark\u003c\/b\u003e’s undulating violin part drifting in and out of focus as if from a dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eOther songs aren’t as oblique, instead chronicling brutally familiar moments at the end of relationships: The tense, emotionally volatile torch song “\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Actor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”, says Peverelle, is about “going to your partner’s one-woman show and then getting broken up with”. “\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotel TV\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”, a hypnotic, late-night reverie, is about “having a sex dream about somebody else while next to your partner, and your partner being a liar,” explains\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePilkington\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThe strongest link between the trio, aside from friendship, is music. “We all talked about loving music when we were growing up, and knowing we wanted music to be a big part of our lives,” says\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003ePilkington\u003c\/b\u003e. That feeling—of music as an innate calling, as opposed to hobby or folly—was justified:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eFolk Bitch Trio\u003c\/b\u003e have already toured across Australia, Europe and the US, supporting bands as disparate as\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eKing Gizzard\u003c\/b\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlex G\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Jacklin\u003c\/b\u003e. They’ve signed with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eJagjaguwar\u003c\/b\u003e, a home for singular icons and iconoclasts (\u003cb\u003eBon Iver, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, UMO\u003c\/b\u003e and others), and they’ve found their first diehard fans with dazzling harmonies and acerbic lyricism that transcend genre expectations and audience lines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThese 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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNow Would Be A Good Time\u003c\/i\u003e feels like a manual for modern living: a missive from three proud Folk Bitches finding beauty and wisdom where they can, together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cu\u003eTRACKLISTING:\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e01. God's a Different Sword\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e02. Hotel TV\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e03. The Actor\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e04. Moth Song\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e05. I’ll Find A Way\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e06. Cathode Ray\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e07. Foreign Bird\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e08. That’s All She Wrote\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e09. Sarah\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e10. 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