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    Phoebe Bridgers On Her New Album 'Punisher,' Surprise Released A Day Early

    The LA singer-songwriter talks about her second solo album, which includes guest appearances from peers like Conor Oberst, copying ideas from her heroes and the way lyrical specificity mimics poetry.
    by Rachel Martin Jun 18, 2020 6 minutes
    Phoebe Bridgers is one of the most prolific young songwriters to emerge in the last several years. Her second solo album, <em>Punisher</em>, is out now.

    Phoebe Bridgers is the first to admit that she's not reinventing herself on her new album. "There's nothing avant-garde about it," she says of Punisher, her second solo record and fourth major musical project in the last three years. Even so, there's a quiet, assertive power to Punisher. It's an album that balances her myriad sensibilities: the observational folk songwriting of her instant-classic 2017 debut, Stranger in the Alps; the smart and piercing work of boygenius, her 2018 EP with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus; and the slacker rock of her self-titled debut with Conor Oberst, Better Oblivion Community Center.

    In fact, the list of indie musicians Bridgers collaborated with might be shorter than the list of the ones she has. features appearances from all of those previous collaborators, plus more heroes from what calls "the Phoebe Bridgers Cinematic Universe": guest vocalists Baker, Dacus and Oberst; guitarist Christian Lee Hutson; producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska; Blake Mills; bandmates Marshall Vore, Harrison Whitford,'s lead single, "Garden Song."

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