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No Rest Even in a Pandemic

THE BOREDOM AND ANXIETY OF THIS YEAR wasn’t what indie singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers had been expecting. Instead of touring and sharing stages with The National and The 1975, she’s been home in Los Angeles. “I tried to make banana bread,” she tells Newsweek “but it got moldy, literally one day later. So I did something wrong.”

Still the folk-based Bridgers, 26, is having a banner year musically. , her second album under her own name, was released this past June to critical acclaim. Before launching a solo career, Bridgers had made records as a member of the bands

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