Rowena Wise's album embraces the grey areas of love and identity
Her second album uses complicated ideas to reject simple stories about morality and relationships.
Rowena Wise makes music about life's contradictions. Her new album is called Bad Things Feel Good*.
The asterisk shows a hidden note: not all bad things feel good, and that's okay. The album was written during a messy time.
Wise dealt with relationship problems, mental health struggles, and changes in who she was. Each song sits in the gray area.
It doesn't try to wrap things up neatly. On Blood Ties, she tells about a friend's mental illness and his emotionally distant dad.
She shows how silence and shame can keep people apart. Another track is called Unlearning of Love.
It explores the blurred line between platonic and romantic connection in a non-monogamous experience. Wise sings with folksy warmth over lush indie rock.
This makes hard topics feel human and real.
- Bad Things Feel Good*
- Album title
- Margaret River, Western Australia
- Hometown
- 18
- Relocation age
- approaching five decades
- Father's instrument-making career
Why it mattersHer songwriting shows how art can sit with messy truths. It doesn't pretend that hard things don't exist.
AustraliaAustralian listeners get an honest local artist exploring themes many feel but rarely hear put to music.
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