Phoebe Bridgers – Punisher [LP]

Description

Phoebe Bridgers doesnt write love songs as much as songs about theimpact love can have on our lives, personalities, and priorities. Punisher,her fourth release and second solo album, is concerned with that subject.To say she writes aboutheartbreak is to undersell her blue wisdom, tosay she writes about pain erases all the strange joy her music emanates.The arrival of Punisher cements Phoebe Bridgers as one of the mostclever, tender and prolific songwriters of our era.

Bridgers is the rare artist with enough humor to deconstruct her ownmeteoric rise. Repeatedly praised by publications like The New Yorker,The New York Times, GQ, Pitchfork, The Fader, The Los Angeles Timesand countless others, Bridgersherself is more interested in discussingtopics on Twitter, deadpanning meditations on the humiliating processof being a person, she presents a sweetly funny flipside to the strikinglysad songs she writes. Fittingly, Punisher is fascinated with, anddrivenby, that kind of impossible tension. Whether its writing tweets or songs,Bridgerss singular talent lies in bringing fierce curiosity to slimy andpainful things, interrogating them until they yield up answers that arebeautiful and absurd, orfaithfully reporting the reality that, sometimes,they are neither.

Bridgers pulls together a formidable crew of guests, including theJulien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson and Conor Oberst as wellas Nathaniel Walcott (of Bright Eyes), Nick Zinner (of the Yeah YeahYeahs), Jenny Lee Lindberg (ofWarpaint), Blake Mills and Jim Keltneras well as her longtime bandmates Marshall Vore (drums), HarrisonWhitford (guitar), Emily Retsas (bass) and Nick White (keys). Thealbum was mixed by Mike Mogis, who also mixed Stranger In TheAlps.

On the albums epic, freewheeling closer, I Know The End, Bridgersorchestrates wails and horns, drums and electric guitar into a sumptuousdoomsday swirl, culminating in her own final whispered roar. This isPunisher in a nutshell: devastatingelegance punctuated by a moment ofdeeply campy self-awareness.

Tracklist:

1. DVD Menu
2. Garden Song
3. Kyoto
4. Punisher
5. Halloween
6. Chinese Satellite
7. Moon Song
8. Savior Complex
9. ICU
10. Graceland Too
11. I Know The End

UPC: 656605150017
Label: Dead Oceans
Release Date: 6.19.20
Format: Vinyl