Now Would Be A Good Time – Folk Bitch Trio
July 25, 2025
Folk music often feels solemn, but Melbourne’s Folk Bitch Trio—Heide Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, and Gracie Sinclair—flip that with humor, heartbreak, and uncanny harmonies. Their debut, Now Would Be A Good Time, dives into the absurdities of early adulthood: awkward sexual fantasies, media overload, galling breakups, and petty humiliations we all secretly endure.
The album’s stories are vivid and darkly funny. Peverelle says “The Actor” is “going to your partner’s one-woman show and then getting broken up with,” while Pilkington reflects on “Moth Song”: “being so spun out by everything that you feel like you’re delusional and hallucinating crazy things.” “Hotel TV” hits hard too: “having a sex dream about somebody else while next to your partner, and your partner being a liar.”
Across ten tracks, friendship and chemistry shine. Harmonies dazzle, lyrics sting, arrangements pulse unpredictably. Tours and a Jagjaguwar signing show they’ve mastered heartbreak, humor, and music in brilliant form.
Uhlmann, Johnson & Wilkes – Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson & Sam Wilkes
March 14, 2025
Los Angeles trio Uhlmann, Johnson & Wilkes merge jazz, psychedelia, and chamber music into a hypnotic debut. Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, and Sam Wilkes explore 11 instrumental tracks where melody and improvisation blur seamlessly, creating playful, immersive soundscapes. Their first live session at ETA produced a haunting “The Fool on the Hill,” showcasing immediate chemistry.
Wilkes recalls, “We all agreed that it was important to have a nice melodic repertoire to use as a starting point to freely improvise. Landing zones, essentially, while we’re out in the field.” “Marvis” grooves tightly yet unpredictably, “Arpy” drifts meditatively, and “Frica” adds subtly disorienting stutters.
Rooted in friendship, interplay is intuitive, solos poetic, improvisation thrilling. Uhlmann, Johnson & Wilkes balances cerebral jazz with playful exploration, immersive and endlessly rewarding.