The beyond-blood sisters who call their indie rock project Tommy Lefroy are voracious readers who encourage trading titles at their headline shows. And we thought it would be funny to embody the archetype of this heartbreaker muse, the one that got away, and put on this boyish courage that the name Tommy Lefroy seems to evoke. When the two women first met in Nashville in 2019, the idea of Tommy Lefroy was “just a concept,” says Bethel. But while The Precariat may come across as an abysmal portrait of current life that seems inescapable, the ladies of Tommy Lefroy do leave breadcrumbs of hope on the album. “The best thing for us is when people say they met their best friend at a Tommy Lefroy show.