{"product_id":"rowena-wise-bad-things-feel-good","title":"Rowena Wise - Bad Things Feel Good","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"528\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"15\"\u003eRowena Wise\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Naarm\/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter whose work balances beauty and mess with rare emotional precision. Hailed as a “lyrical assassin” by the Australian triple j community, Wise writes songs that feel like intimate conversations — ruminations on love, alienation, longing, and selfhood delivered with quiet courage and disarming honesty. Drawing from the storytelling lineage of ’60s folk while grounded in indie rock, garage pop, and alt-folk, she finds truth in fiction and humanity in contradiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"908\"\u003eRaised in the surf town of Margaret River, Western Australia, Wise was immersed in music from the outset. Her father, a luthier, built her guitars by hand, and her mother — a Chicago-born folk musician — instilled a deep reverence for songcraft and storytelling. After touring as part of a family band in her youth, she moved to Melbourne at 18 to forge her own artistic path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"910\" data-end=\"1332\"\u003eSince emerging in 2018 with her debut single \u003cem data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"962\"\u003eDiary\u003c\/em\u003e, Wise has amassed over 9.2 million streams and earned airplay across triple j, Double J, and Unearthed. Subsequent releases, including \u003cem data-start=\"1098\" data-end=\"1116\"\u003eFked Up Over You\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"1121\" data-end=\"1133\"\u003eTo Pretend\u003c\/em\u003e, cemented her as one of Australia’s most compelling new voices in indie music, while her collaboration \u003cem data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1255\"\u003eNo Cure for Love\u003c\/em\u003e with \u003cstrong data-start=\"1261\" data-end=\"1272\"\u003eDidirri\u003c\/strong\u003e further showcased her gift for raw, intimate songwriting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1763\"\u003eIn May 2024, she released her debut album, \u003cem data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1403\"\u003eSenseless Acts of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e, described by \u003cem data-start=\"1418\" data-end=\"1434\"\u003eCLASH Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e as “carefully etched indie folk.” The coming-of-age record, exploring loss, alienation, and the slow rebuilding of self, was shortlisted for the 2024 Australian Music Prize, with producer \u003cstrong data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1637\"\u003eRob Muinos\u003c\/strong\u003e (\u003cstrong data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1656\"\u003eJulia Jacklin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Didirri) later nominated for the 2025 AIR Independent Producer of the Year for his work on the project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1765\" data-end=\"2397\"\u003eSince its release, Wise has toured extensively across Australia, the UK, Europe, the USA, and Canada, bringing her candid power and vulnerability to international audiences. As a live performer, Wise commands the stage with understated intensity. Soaring melodies intertwine with purposeful guitar work, her poetic lyricism anchoring each performance. She has supported artists including \u003cstrong data-start=\"2153\" data-end=\"2172\"\u003eThe Paper Kites\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"2174\" data-end=\"2190\"\u003eMedium Build\u003c\/strong\u003e, Didirri, \u003cstrong data-start=\"2201\" data-end=\"2220\"\u003eBall Park Music\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"2222\" data-end=\"2235\"\u003eHoly Holy\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong data-start=\"2237\" data-end=\"2256\"\u003eBernard Fanning\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong data-start=\"2262\" data-end=\"2278\"\u003ePaul Dempsey\u003c\/strong\u003e, and has appeared at festivals such as The Great Escape, SXSW, Queenscliff Music Festival, and Party in the Paddock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2399\" data-end=\"2840\"\u003eAmid a relentless touring schedule, Wise wrote and recorded her highly anticipated sophomore album, \u003cem data-start=\"2499\" data-end=\"2521\"\u003eBad Things Feel Good\u003c\/em\u003e — a tender, point-blank meditation on transformation and what it means to be flesh and blood. Where \u003cem data-start=\"2622\" data-end=\"2648\"\u003eSenseless Acts of Beauty\u003c\/em\u003e explored heartbreak and rebuilding, this new record inhabits the uncomfortable in-between: the knowing and unknowing, harm and pleasure, tenderness and damage coexisting in the same breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2842\" data-end=\"3375\"\u003eProduced again by Rob Muinos (\u003cstrong data-start=\"2872\" data-end=\"2889\"\u003eJulia Jacklin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Didirri) and recorded live over three days at Ratshack Studios in Collingwood with \u003cstrong data-start=\"2974\" data-end=\"2994\"\u003eRichard Bradbeer\u003c\/strong\u003e (bass) and \u003cstrong data-start=\"3006\" data-end=\"3022\"\u003eJess Ellwood\u003c\/strong\u003e (drums), \u003cem data-start=\"3032\" data-end=\"3054\"\u003eBad Things Feel Good\u003c\/em\u003e favours restraint and intimacy. The live-band production allows Wise’s vocal performances to soar and crumble in real time, holding space rather than demanding attention. The result is powerful, tender storytelling that feels less like spectacle and more like permission — an invitation into something deeply personal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3377\" data-end=\"3970\"\u003eWritten through years marked by mental health struggles, heartbreak, and shifts in core identity, \u003cem data-start=\"3475\" data-end=\"3497\"\u003eBad Things Feel Good\u003c\/em\u003e is not a confession but an honest reckoning with growth’s uneasy terrain. Exploring romantic, familial, and communal intimacy, inherited patterns, moral vertigo, and the seduction of self-betrayal, the album resists neat redemption arcs in favour of embracing contradiction. It acknowledges imperfect parents, fraught lovers, and shedding selves, questioning whether growth must always arrive through suffering and whether love can exist without possession or sacrifice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"3972\" data-end=\"4339\"\u003eHere, unlearning is as powerful as knowing, vulnerability becomes strength, and pain finds its place within a larger picture. Wise stands at the threshold between who she was and who she might become, inviting listeners to sit in that uneasy space where desire, love, and truth collide — and to make peace with the mess rather than smoothing it into something tidy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"4341\" data-end=\"4608\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eWith a devoted and growing fanbase, critical acclaim, and an unwavering commitment to emotional truth, Rowena Wise continues to carve out a space uniquely her own — where storytelling is both mirror and map, and where being human, in all its contradiction, is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Beloved Records","offers":[{"title":"Indies Exclusive Blue Vinyl LP","offer_id":58159646638425,"sku":"SDZ-46544","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58159646671193,"sku":"SDZ-46545","price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/REP_20260528_1219_112134_580_v_5053760154297_002.jpg?v=1779967538","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/rowena-wise-bad-things-feel-good","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}