Housewife - Girl Of The Hour [EP]
“slow-burning, glittery alt-pop” – THE LINE OF BEST FIT
“Housewife is a revelation…A glorious combination of Blondshell, Julia Jacklin and soaring US songwriter charm, it’s an emphatic introduction to an artist already screaming “future favourite”. – DORK
“’Divorce’ sees the Toronto-based artist paint a vivid picture of someone whose world has fallen apart due to a break-up, via the mediums of mournful vocals, pensive grunge riffs, and palpable pop hooks.” – DIY MAG
“an addictive alt-pop anthem with shades of nostalgia and melancholia from a promising new talent.” – RECORD OF THE DAY
“ -Child of my own Divorce- That’s the most brilliant lyric I’ve ever heard….The lyrics are incredibly smart.” – LOS ANGELES TIMES
“‘King of Wands’ finds Fry once again showing off their layered songwriting and infectious melodicism, hitting on a careful combination of rollicking indie rock guitars and earworm hooks.” – UNDER THE RADAR
“Toronto-based rising star Brighid Fry under her musical moniker consistently delivers pop-tinged indie-rock productions that weave through everything from messy situationships to climate change in empowering yet grounding tones.” – EARMILK
After a prolific 2024 with widely-praised releases ‘I Lied’, ‘Wasn’t You’, ‘Life of the Party’ and ‘Divorce’, Canadian artist Housewife (Brighid Fry) is kicking off the New Year with the announcement of eagerly-awaited new EP ‘Girl Of The Hour’ accompanied by the release of new single ‘Work Song’. Due for release on 7 March via Submarine Cat Records, ‘Girl Of The Hour’ follows 2022’s EP ‘You’ll Be Forgiven’ continuing the sprawling indie-pop energy Housewife has become known for.
Filled with curiosity and questions of identity, Toronto’s Brighid Fry (she/ they) makes the sort of indie-leaning, exploratory music that it’s taken several years of early success and subsequent growth to reach. First breaking through in her teens as one half of Moscow Apartment, the duo swiftly won a Canadian Folk Music award for their self-titled debut EP before changing their name and then becoming a solo project in 2022. As Brighid hit her twenties and stepped front and centre, the material that she was writing became increasingly more self-aware and personal, too.
Still only 21, Brighid credits her liberal upbringing as helping to make this process of both artistic and self-discovery as seamless as possible. Having recently been diagnosed as autistic, she jokes that her neurodivergence was on display and understood from the first moments music entered her life as a child when, unlike most three-year-olds, she became obsessed with classical composers and begged her parents not just for a kid’s violin, but also a collection of busts of Bach, Beethoven and co. When the classical music fixation gave way to more contemporary tastes, she would join her family at the folk festivals they regularly attended, playing her first non-classical performance at a Greenpeace fundraiser.
As well as offering Brighid an early introduction to the community that music can provide and the climate activism that would go on to become a big part of her life (in 2021, she helped to set up the Canadian branch of Music Declares Emergency), her family also provided a completely accepting place to explore her wider identity. As a “third generation queer”, she’s felt confident and comfortable with her own bisexuality since the age of 12. “My parents are bisexual; my grandma’s a lesbian; I grew up going to Pride so I never had a teary coming out,” she notes. In the two years since Housewife’s previous EP ‘You’ll Be Forgiven’, meanwhile, Brighid has spent time understanding that she is non-binary. “It took longer to figure that bit out, but I’ve never struggled with my identity,”she says. (continue reading full bio on our DISCO)