NME cover star branches out from the downbeat alt-folk of her 2018 debut album, exploring millennial dread with a broader sonic palettePhoebe Bridgers has previously said that Joan Didion – the acclaimed author who skewers a particularly chaotic strain of boredom sun-stained by California glare – was on her mind as she wrote ‘Punisher’.
And like Didion, Bridgers captures the everyday figments of life with a bleak smirk. “I hate living by the hospital / The sirens go all night,” she sings on the gentle ‘Halloween’, and what seems like a mundane complaint quickly swerves to address the inevitability of death. “I used to joke that if they woke you up,” she sings, “somebody better be dying.” Read more: On the cover – Phoebe Bridgers: “I.
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