When you’re an all-women folk trio separated by 3,832 miles, love, hope and plenty of transportation aren’t a bad thing to make a geographically impaired-band work. For the Malvinas, whose roster includes Crescent City singer-songwriter/fiddler Gina Forsyth, what also works are the cerebral songs, alternating vocalists, dovetailed delicate harmonies and fiddle-laced arrangements that frame a multi-hued personality. With an arsenal of three capable songsmiths, they cover a Louisiana Purchase’s worth of territory from Tex Lisa Markley’s tango-stepping ode to womankind (“Eve Takes a Fall”) to Canadian transplant Beth Cahill’s brittle folk-pop sensibility (“Westjet Ticket Counter”). Their lyrical treasures are often subtly profound, surfacing in the midst of softer sonic sketches and introspective mood portrayals. They’re unpretentiously witty, witness the Monica Lewinsky-inspired “Ordinary Blues” that balances with the themes of longing and amorous desire. Forsyth’s “Sweet and Sunny South” is practically a Southern cultural anthem with such anti-antebellum lines as “We love our musicians / And our fascist politicians” and “But it’s grits and not granola / and they know it from Shin-Ola.” Whoever said long distance relationships flounder and fade away obviously never met the Malvinas. Call it a Malvinas triangle.