Phoebe Bridgers Announces New Album 'Lost Weekend'
The four-time Grammy Award Winning singer-songwriter powerhouse announces her first album in six years, set to release August 14th.
The confirmed album cover for Lost Weekend.
Following a successive set of pop-up clandestine shows - with the final show in New York’s Madison Square Garden and proceeds benefitting the Immigration Bond Freedom Fund - Phoebe Bridgers has announced her first full-length album after a six-year hiatus, under the title Lost Weekend. The record is available to audiences on August 14th via her label, Dead Oceans; furthermore, a lead single from the record is confirmed to be released tomorrow, June 25th, but no detailed information has been provided yet about the track.
According to an album-related press release, Lost Weekend catches her at the “height of her powers, a master, taking nothing more seriously than this craft, refining here many of the motifs that distinguished her work previously on this new album that’s otherwise, everywhere, full of surprises.” Major collaborators on the record include Alex G, Jack Antonoff, and Bo Burnham.
Online, fans are speculating that the record is likely akin to Punisher’s tonal baseline: oscillating between proseic sincerity while undercutting sentiment in the same verse and instrumentally marshy, but will bring in more ‘bandy’, grandiose drums and classically-rock propulsion. According to the few lucky pop-up concertgoers who caught flashes of Lost Weekend at her shows, Bridgers is experimenting with more abrasive vocals and integrating electric more directly into her newest projects.
Other online commentators have suggested the opposite, believing that Bridgers is headed toward more stripped-back, low-frequency folk tracks, which reckon with themes such as the recent death of her father and otherwise long-term wrestlings with depression and anxiety (furthermore indicated by her retreat from the limelight in recent years). Either way, the consensus seems to be that loosely-controlled angst over her more wallowing previous works will be the major shift from Punisher to Lost Weekend, whether that shift surfaces as downstroked, prickling folk or a more accelerative electric confidence than previously heard from her before.
Alongside her re-entry into the public eye with the release, she will be embarking upon forty-four concerts across the United States, the United Kingdom, and a select few in mainland Europe from September 14th to December 12th. Former Black Country, New Road singer, Isaac Wood, will play select UK dates with Bridgers, with Alex G set to open for all of her U.S. shows. Rising German singer-songwriter anaïs will also be playing two shows with Phoebe and Isaac in London on December 1st and 2nd.
Lost Weekend releases August 14th, with the first lead single releasing June 25th.