Folk Bitch Trio Present New Single, “Hotel TV,” From Debut Album

Folk Bitch Trio —the band of Gracie Sinclair (she/her), Jeanie Pilkington (she/her) and Heide Peverelle (they/them) – do “a sort of Roches-esque take on Camp Cope-style bluntness about the experience of being young and feminist in Australia” (Hearing Things). Today, the Melbourne / Naarm-based group present “Hotel TV,” the final single/video from their debut album, Now Would Be A Good Time, out this Friday via Jagjaguwar. In celebration of the album’s release, Folk Bitch Trio play Nightclub 101 in Brooklyn tonight and Permanent Records in Los Angeles on Thursday. Later this summer, they will tour the US supporting Whitney, and in the fall, they will tour Canada supporting Foxwarren. Tickets are on sale now.

“Hotel TV” follows last month’s “Moth Song,” described by Stereogum as “lush” and hailed by Hearing Things as “a gorgeous soundscape.” In keeping with Now Would Be A Good Time’s chronicling of the brutally familiar moments at the end of relationships, “Hotel TV” is a hypnotic, late-night reverie about “having a sex dream about somebody else while next to your partner, and your partner being a liar,” explains Pilkington. At the song’s conclusion, Pilkington sings: “Cause I lay beside him / In the night / And I had a filthy dream / To the noise of the hotel TV.”

Of the song’s video, Pilkington says, “Our vibe check for the music video was dire country town, bored and cheeky, loosely inspired by both our childhoods and what we’ve had to do for fun touring regional Australia."

Now Would Be A Good Time tells vivid, visceral stories. Folk Bitch Trio’s 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.

The songs on Now Would Be A Good Time were workshopped on tour and written specifically with their shared connection in mind. Recording in Auckland with Tom Healy (Tiny Ruins, Marlon Williams) during winter 2024, the band built out these songs with minimalist, idiosyncratic arrangements, and, with voices and guitar taking center stage, recorded to tape as the final missing thread in bringing the album to life.

The 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 Pilkington. “But for me at least, when I looked into the future, it was this relatively mysterious thing.” Joining forces as a group demystified that future. That feeling—of music as an innate calling, as opposed to hobby or folly—was justified. 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, and found their first fans with their dazzling harmonies and acerbic lyricism that transcend genre expectations and audience lines.

Tour Dates

Tue. July 22 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101 % [SOLD OUT]

Thu. July 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Permanent Records $ [SOLD OUT]

Mon. Aug. 4 - Charlton, MA @ The Pavilion at Tree House Brewing*

Tue. Aug. 5 - Marshfield, MA @ Levitate Backyard*

Wed. Aug. 6 - Brattleboro, VT @ The Stone Church*

Thu. Aug. 7 - Woodstock, NY @ Levon Helm Studios*

Fri. Aug. 8 - Towson, MD @ The Recher*

Sun. Aug. 10 - Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony*

Tue. Aug. 12 - Rochester, NY @ Anthology*

Wed. Aug. 13 - Indianapolis, IN @ HI-FI Annex*

Thu. Aug. 14 - Cleveland, OH @ Globe Iron*