Folk Bitch Trio are done waiting for a good time — they’ve made their own. The Naarm/Melbourne trio of Gracie Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington and Heide Peverelle have announced their debut album Now Would Be A Good Time, out July 25 via Jagjaguwar, and revealed its razor-sharp lead single ‘Cathode Ray’, a warped lullaby for the screen-addled and emotionally fried.
Built from years of collaboration, DIY tours and painfully honest songwriting, Now Would Be A Good Time is a collection of songs that radiate early-20s disillusionment — from breakup post-mortems to spiral-outs and pop culture come-downs. It’s gnarled folk rock for the burnout generation: minimal, sardonic, and full of those moments you wish you could scrub from memory.
Recorded to tape in Auckland with Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams) during a New Zealand winter, the album centres on the trio’s chemistry — dry harmonies, spacious guitars, and the eerie sense that each of them is telling you a slightly different version of the same story.
Individually, their tastes dart between Patti Smith and Tchaikovsky, Gillian Welch and early 2000s pop, making their collaboration as strange as it is seamless. Together, they’ve already toured with acts like Alex G, Julia Jacklin and King Gizzard — and now they’re ready to take their off-kilter folk to centre stage with headline shows across the UK, EU, North America and a just-announced homecoming tour through Australia and New Zealand this September.
Stream ‘Cathode Ray’ HERE.
AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND TOUR DATES
Fri 5 Sep – Jive – Kaurna Land / Adelaide
Sat 6 Sep – Mojos Bar – Walyalup / Fremantle
Sat 13 Sep – Corner Hotel – Naarm / Melbourne
Fri 19 Sep – The Brightside – Meanjin / Brisbane
Sat 20 Sep – The Landsdowne – Eora / Sydney
Fri 26 Sep – Tuning Fork – Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, NZ
Sat 27 Sep – San Fran – Pōneke / Wellington, NZ
Sun 28 Sep – Loons – Otautahi / Christchurch, NZ
Tickets available HERE
INTERNATIONAL TOUR DATES
Wed 14 May – St Pancras Old Church – London, UK [SOLD OUT]
Thu 15 – Fri 16 May – The Great Escape – Brighton, UK
Sat 17 May – London Calling Festival – Amsterdam, NL
Mon 19 May – La Mecanique Ondulatoire – Paris, FR
Thu 10 – Sun 13 Jul – Winnipeg Folk Festival – Winnipeg, CA
Tue 22 Jul – Nightclub 101 – New York, US
Thu 24 Jul – Permanent Records Roadhouse – Los Angeles, US
Thu 14 – Sun 17 Aug – Green Man Festival – Wales, UK
Tickets available HERE
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