Music like this doesn’t arrive with a bang. It drifts in slowly, like a thought you’ve been trying to ignore—and then suddenly, it’s all you can think about. Girl of the Hour, the new EP from Toronto’s Housewife, lands with that kind of subtle weight. Across six tracks, Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla offer up dreamy indie-pop that feels both feather-light and emotionally loaded, like a confessional whispered over the hum of a city at night.
Formerly known as Moscow Apartment, Fry and Padilla have been writing music together for years, and you can hear that lived-in chemistry all over this EP. The sound is lush but never overblown—drum machines pulse softly beneath layered guitar lines, synths shimmer and stretch, and the vocals sit right at the front, fragile and firm at the same time.
“Work Song” might be the most immediate track of the bunch. It’s all aching melody and quiet defiance, with lyrics that capture the numbness of modern burnout without slipping into cliché. “I work so hard just to keep from crying / Make myself a goddamn living shrine,” Fry sings, and it hits like a sigh you’ve been holding in for way too long. It’s lo-fi anxiety dressed in lo-fi elegance.
