Editor’s Note: Here at No Depression there’s too much great roots music in a year for us to cover it all. So in December, when new releases slow down, we ask writers to review some of the best albums we missed throughout the year in an on-going series called What We Missed.
Now Would Be a Good Time is the kind of album you want share with friends the first time you hear it. The Australian threesome of Heidi Peverelle, Jeanie Pilkington, and Gracie Sinclair produces such heavenly harmonies that you’d swear they were siblings who’d been singing together since childhood, not newbies making a debut record.
Their no-frills approach is quietly dazzling, with beautiful voices converging in graceful melodies supported mostly by restrained electric and acoustic guitar. But these are not the cliched fair maidens of traditional folk music stereotypes. Now Would Be a Good Time is a caustic set of relationship songs, rendered in an intriguing mix of stream-of-conscious ramblings and uncomfortably direct observations.
