Rowena Wise

Rowena Wise’s “Bad Things Feel Good*” expands on her impressive debut with quiet sincerity and intimacy as calling cards. She moves between swooping maximalism and spine-tingling closeness, juggling contradictory elements. The mess has been transmuted into something beautiful, with a skillfully directed emotional sting—the bigger picture without losing sight of small details—the perfect soundtrack to contemporary emotional life.

Rowena Wise picks ten objects from her home ahead of her second album, “Bad Things Feel Good*”. A monocular she whips out like a cowboy to watch birds. A wizard lamp that glows red while she records. Stones from a Portuguese beach. Her first guitar, nylon-strung, made by her father. Revealing and surprising from the start.

Rowena Wise announces her second album, Bad Things Feel Good*, and shares new single and video, Diamond In The Rough. The song, “about the pressures of being told that you’re special from a young age, creating an unattainable standard you must maintain,” is accompanied by a Didirri-directed video, the concept for which was inspired by Jamie Lee Curtis’ ‘The Last Showgirl’.