Phoebe Bridgers

Like most of us, Phoebe Bridgers – the singer-songwriter and indie lynchpin – has found her time in lockdown has had its pros and its cons. “But I’ve been reading more, eating more, exercising more,” she told TG’s sister mag Guitar World. “I feel like my quarantine body is Rhonda Rousey, you know? I’m just getting really yoked. And I’m eating loads of peanut butter.”

Bridgers is frequently described as a master of insightful, observational writing. In person and on record she is self-aware, but nonetheless brutally honest in a way that is equally amusing and affecting. Since her emergence in the late 2010s, her output has been prolific and multifaceted – from the expansive contemporary indie-folk and open-tuned experiments on her 2018 debut Stranger In The Alps and its new follow-up Punisher, to her work with Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst in Better Oblivion Community Centre and with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker in Boygenius. Bridgers also contributed vocals to four songs on The 1975’s recent number one album, Notes On A Conditional Form.

Now, amid the home-based preparation for release, she has had the opportunity to consume again. “I’ve been constantly listening to records and that has been really comforting to me,” she says. “So, [right now] I hope to do that for someone. I don’t want to remind