NME’s latest stars of The Cover, Folk Bitch Trio, have put together an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.
The Melbourne band are on this week’s (June 16) edition of The Cover, a manifestation of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read Folk Bitch Trio’s profile here, written by Lisa Wright and featuring photography by Ian Laidlaw.
Folk Bitch Trio have put together an exclusive playlist, titled ‘Folk Bitch Winter’, to accompany their The Cover story. The playlist includes tracks by the likes of Radiohead, Greg Freeman, Suicide, Gillian Welch, Bob Dylan and more. Listen to it in full on Spotify below and on Apple Music.
Before forming Folk Bitch Trio, Gracie Sinclair, Jeanie Pilkington and Heide Peverelle didn’t always wear their love of the genre they make now on their sleeves. “When you’re 17, it’s not really at the forefront of what you’d be telling your homies that you’re into; that you listen to music that your parents had shown you,” Sinclair chuckles. “But I remember figuring out that Jeanie listened to Gillian Welch and being like… ‘Huh! We ain’t so different!’”
Elsewhere in The Cover, the band discuss their debut album ‘Now Would Be A Good Time’ and the magic that comes from making music together. “Being able to sing such vulnerable songs and feel accepted, that’s maybe where the magic was, because it felt like a really safe and exciting thing that we could all write songs and sing them together,” Peverelle recalls.
Read Folk Bitch Trio’s full Cover story here and find out who else has been on The Cover here.