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Rowena Wise is a 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. Amid a relentless touring schedule, Wise wrote and recorded her highly anticipated sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good* - a tender, point-blank meditation on transformation and what it means to be flesh and blood. Where her debut 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.