Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Indie Exclusive Rogue Planet 2LP)

Facts Lost Weekend is Phoebe Bridgers' first album since her multiple GRAMMY-nominated second album, Punisher, was released at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. There was much talk of Bridgers' virtuosity, which felt wise beyond her years, when her acclaimed debut, Stranger in the Alps, came out about a month after the artist's 23rd birthday. Punisher was seemingly universally praised as a promise fulfilled: a smart, alluring, well-balanced yet thrilling, ultimately highly memorable album from an artist whose meteoric career and songwriting talent had suddenly been matched by her road-tested band and their richer, bolder accompaniment. But anyone who puts on Lost Weekend can expect to discover something even more remarkable. Bridgers is at the peak of her career, a master who takes nothing more seriously than her craft, and on this new album, which is full of surprises throughout, she refines many of the themes that have previously marked her work.