“The chemistry of being inspired by each other was evident from the get-go,” says Gracie Sinclair
Australia’s Folk Bitch Trio have announced their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time, out July 25th via Jagjaguwar.
To accompany the announcement, the group — Gracie Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington, and Heide Peverelle — also dropped the new single “Cathode Ray.” A track about “bodily, deeply human anxieties,” the gem expertly showcases their heavenly harmonies, with a stripped-down melody that aches in vulnerability: “I walk a free man so it canʼt be love/But everybody needs somebody/To make their body/Come undone.”
As Sinclair says of the track, “It expresses a feeling of being trapped in myself, and wanting to break out of that so violently that Iʼm literally talking about opening up a body viscerally. Itʼs about frustration, and knowing thereʼs no cheap thrill thatʼs going to fix that.”
Hailing from Melbourne and Naarm, Folk Bitch Trio met in high school, and began singing together five years ago. Now Would Be A Good Time was cut last winter in Auckland with Tom Healy. “The chemistry of being inspired by each other was evident from the get-go,” Sinclair says.
“Cathode Ray” follows the dreamy lead single “The Actor,” which the band released last month, when they announced their signing to Jagjaguwar. “We have three individual voices, but the story we tell is unified because our hearts are very melded,” the group said.
In between touring the U.K., Folk Bitch Trio will play two select shows in the U.S., stopping in New York on July 22 (at Night Club), and Los Angeles on July 24 (at Permanent Records). Tickets are on sale now.
Now Would Be A Good Time Track List
1. Godʼs 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. Thatʼs All She Wrote
9. Sarah
10. Maryʼs Playing The Harp
