A soft, sentimental, and smile-inducing embrace of life’s fleeting, magic moments, Bad Posture Club’s “Handy Girls” is a radiant reverie – a gentle and heartfelt reflection on love, human connection, and all the little things that make us feel at home.
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“Handy girls can fix it” is her favorite line, and I wish that I could make her happy all the time…
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There’s a special kind of love in the everyday.
In shared routines and inside jokes, in fixing things together, in walking hand-in-hand through dark woods, or yelling at the dog from the front seat of a beat-up truck. Bad Posture Club’s latest single captures this intimacy with breathtaking grace – tender and unfiltered in its musings on place, partnership, and the beauty we build in ordinary spaces. A soft, sentimental, and smile-inducing embrace of life’s fleeting, magic moments, “Handy Girls” is a radiant reverie – a gentle and heartfelt reflection on love, human connection, and all the little things that make us feel at home.
Pickup truck with one headlight
Ratchet straps are nice and tight
Remember when we lost bales on the road?
The guy behind us
picked them up and off he drove
Blue tarp and orange twine
Colors of the sky and sun when day is fine
“Handy girls can fix it” is her favorite line
And I wish that I could
make her happy all the time
Atwood Magazine is proud to be premiering “Handy Girls,” the second single off Bad Posture Club’s forthcoming third album Affinity (out July 8th, 2025 via Ghost Mountain Records). Following May’s spellbinding title track – a cinematic, slow-burning folk meditation – “Handy Girls” brings a refreshing sense of lightness and ease to Bad Posture Club’s catalog. It’s two voices and an acoustic guitar, no frills, no flash – just intimacy and honesty, delivered with care and calm, lilting chords.
“‘Handy Girls’ tells stories from a rural property in Northwestern Washington, where I lived between the ages of 12 and 15,” Morgan Kavanagh, who performs in Bad Posture Club alongside bandmate Maren Day, tells Atwood Magazine. “The song captures quiet, meaningful moments – times when I felt deeply connected to both the people around me and the landscape we called home. It was a difficult, beautiful, and formative place.”
She continues, “By keeping the instrumentation simple, the focus remains on the storytelling – inviting listeners into a world shaped by the tender, often challenging work of caring for complex people and places.”
Walking through the dark woods
with her hand in mine
Neighbors have cable TV
and they don’t mind
If we come over Wednesday nights
watch for a while
She likes CSI, I like American Idol
The song captures quiet, meaningful moments – times when I felt deeply connected to both the people around me and the landscape we called home. It was a difficult, beautiful, and formative place.
That simplicity is what makes “Handy Girls” hit so hard.
With lyrical snapshots of bales of hay, pink surveyor tape, Wednesday night TV rituals, and long drives down the two-lane highway, Day and Kavanagh paint a portrait of coming-of-age and quiet devotion. It’s personal and poetic, softly nostalgic, and unforgettably human.
Loggers marking up the trees with bright pink tape
We untie the ribbons and throw them away
But they’re back again the next week just the same
Do our best to turn the sad things into a game
Active since 2018, Bad Posture Club are no strangers to such musical grace and vulnerability – and Atwood Magazine is no stranger to them! The duo was last featured in our 81st Editor’s Picks (published December 2022) for their achingly beautiful song “My Good My Sweet My Bright,” a track – originally written by Kavanagh’s great grandmother, over 90 years ago in the early 1930s – that, to this day, glows with the timeless warmth of unconditional love:
My good, my sweet, my bright
Close your eyes on lots of stars and soft moonbeams
May all the things you love
come and be your playmates in your dreams
And when the night is through,
just remember I’ll be there to care for you
To start the day out right
I love you so, my good, my sweet, my bright
Whereas that release saw the queer folk duo interpreting a timeless, century-old lullaby (and family heirloom) passed down through the generations – and quite beautifully, one might add – the songs off Affinity are more recent revelations and reckonings pulled from Day and Kavanagh’s life experiences past and present – whether it’s memories of growing up in Washington State in the 1990s and early 2000s, or navigating the 2020s in style from their current perch in the Pacific Northwest.
Across from the Deming Library
are the cheapest cigarettes in the whole county
She drove so fast down the two lane highway
Yelling at the dog again to quit her whining
“Handy Girls” is special not just because of its evocative imagery and intimate scenes, but because it acts as a window and a doorway into Bad Posture Club’s lives – into a world that only they will really ever know, because it’s theirs and theirs alone. Songs like this give an inch, a mere peak, into other lives, and while it’s not much, it’s enough to feel like we know them better than we did before. And maybe, just maybe, we can relate some of that special, lived magic – that raw human intimacy – to the fleeting, meaningful moments in our own lives.
Affinity arrives July 8th via Ghost Mountain Records. Until then, let “Handy Girls” hold you in its quiet light. Stream Bad Posture Club’s latest single exclusively on Atwood Magazine!
Walking up the back trail to meet the fence
If I stand just so I can’t see anything
But the blue mountains of another country
Tall yellow grass and the sky high above me
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