We’re New Here – Folk Bitch Trio
You might not expect an acoustic vocal harmony group to radiate “‘fuck yeah’ rock’n’roll energy” but this is how Melbourne’s Folk Bitch Trio characterise their sound and attitude. In practice, they produce a sometimes spare, sometimes sumptuous, always graceful blend with a lyrical sting in the tail, moving Phoebe Bridgers to describe them as “Boygenius if it was from the ’40s”. “We just set out to play music together with our means and the feelings in our hearts,” says Gracie Sinclair, “but singing songs in three-part harmony is what we are best at.” Advertisement Sinclair and bandmates Heide Peverelle and Jeanie Pilkington were not always folk bitches. “My head was really in the jazz game,” says Sinclair, who studied jazz voice and was performing corporate and club gigs by her mid-teens. Pilkington dropped out of the same course but held on to her love of harmonics. Peverelle dipped in and out of piano lessons, art school and their dad’s record collection. “There was a period of time when I rejected folk music in a really heavy way because I thought it was daggy and uncool,” they say. “Then you get to 17, 18 and think, ‘Whatever I like is cool… Read More →
