{"product_id":"wise-rowena-bad-things-feel-good","title":"Wise, Rowena - Bad Things Feel Good","description":"\u003cp\u003eRowena Wise 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmid a relentless touring schedule, Wise wrote and recorded her highly anticipated sophomore album, \u003cem\u003eBad Things Feel Good\u003c\/em\u003e — a tender, point-blank meditation on transformation and what it means to be flesh and blood. Where Senseless Acts of Beauty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced again by Rob Muinos (Julia Jacklin, Didirri) and recorded live over three days at Ratshack Studios in Collingwood with Richard Bradbeer (bass) and Jess Ellwood (drums), \u003cem\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten through years marked by mental health struggles, heartbreak, and shifts in core identity, \u003cem\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Beloved Records","offers":[{"title":"Blue LP","offer_id":51491368861974,"sku":"RMX-70677","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":51491368894742,"sku":"RMX-70678","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0839\/7750\/2998\/files\/rowena.png?v=1782981760","url":"https:\/\/resident-music-uk.myshopify.com\/products\/wise-rowena-bad-things-feel-good","provider":"Resident Music UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}