Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend: The Sound of Living Through This

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Six years after Punisher gave the isolation of 2020 an apocalyptic soundtrack, Phoebe Bridgers returns with Lost Weekend an album about what it feels like to live through a world that increasingly feels impossible to change. The Trump era. Late-stage capitalism. Internet alienation. Institutional indifference. Grief. Love. Fame. Lost Weekend brings these enormous forces down to the scale of an individual life, asking what happens when catastrophe stops being an event and becomes the environment we live inside. But this isn’t a protest album. Through dissociation, distorted voices, memories of her father, intimate relationships and moments of unexpected warmth, Bridgers explores what remains…