Phoebe Bridgers opens her Moleskine

Many of us keep a journal, but few of us are able to turn our unvarnished thoughts into cultural moments touching on love, death, and guitars quite like Phoebe Bridgers. Her new album Lost Weekend isn’t just throwing the pages of her personal life into song, it’s much more than that: A beguiling, hyper-compositional meditation on the last six years of her life.

The genres range from bluegrass to electronic, and collaborators pepper the record – from her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, to Americana outfit Nickel Creek, to a mysterious presence who may or may not be Geese singer Cameron Winter. The end result is one of the most immersive and heartbreaking albums of the year thus far, transforming the specificity of one person’s story and observations into a universal reflection on life’s fragility.

CREDITS 

• Reanna Cruz: Producer 
• Iris Gottlieb: Illustrator 
• Charlie Harding: Host, Executive Producer 
• Dion Lee: Art Director 
• Brandon McFarland: Audio Engineer 
• Nick Ripps: Video Editor 
• Nate Sloan: Host 
• Lissa Soep: Editor 
• Zach Tenorio & Jocie Adams: Theme Composers 

Switched On Pop is a co-production of Vox Media Podcast Network, Vulture, and Rock Ridge Productions.

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Songs discussed:

• Phoebe Bridgers – The Outside
• Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Boys
• Phoebe Bridgers – Kill Me
• Phoebe Bridgers – The Governor’s Waltz
• Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend
• Phoebe Bridgers – Haunted
• Phoebe Bridgers – Still Standing
• Phoebe Bridgers – Never Going Back!
• Phoebe Bridgers – I Can’t Wait
• Phoebe Bridgers – Lost Weekend (Reprise)
• Paul Lansky and Hannah MacKay – Notjustmoreidlechatter
• Phoebe Bridgers – I Know The End
• Phoebe Bridgers – Motion Sickness

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