Many of us keep a journal, but few of us are able to turn our unvarnished thoughts into cultural moments touching on love, death, and guitars quite like Phoebe Bridgers. Her new album Lost Weekend isn’t just throwing the pages of her personal life into song, it’s much more than that: A beguiling, hyper-compositional meditation on the last six years of her life.
The genres range from bluegrass to electronic, and collaborators pepper the record – from her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, to Americana outfit Nickel Creek, to a mysterious presence who may or may not be Geese singer Cameron Winter. The end result is one of the most immersive and heartbreaking albums of the year thus far, transforming the specificity of one person’s story and observations into a universal reflection on life’s fragility.
CREDITS
Reanna Cruz: Producer
Iris Gottlieb: Illustrator
Charlie Harding: Host, Executive Producer
Dion Lee: Art Director
Brandon McFarland: Audio Engineer
Nick Ripps: Video Editor
Nate Sloan: Host
Lissa Soep: Editor
Zach Tenorio & Jocie Adams: Theme Composers
Switched On Pop is a co-production of Vox Media Podcast Network, Vulture, and Rock Ridge Productions.
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Songs discussed:
Phoebe Bridgers – The Outside
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys
Phoebe Bridgers – Kill Me
Phoebe Bridgers – The Governor’s Waltz
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
Phoebe Bridgers – Haunted
Phoebe Bridgers – Still Standing
Phoebe Bridgers – Never Going Back!
Phoebe Bridgers – I Can’t Wait
Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend (Reprise)
Paul Lansky and Hannah MacKay – Notjustmoreidlechatter
Phoebe Bridgers – I Know The End
Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness
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