Phoebe Bridgers, the 27-year-old pop star with a haunting edge, was born in Pasadena, California, spending most of her childhood in L.A. Performing around California since the age of 11, the burn of her lyrics paired with airy vocals, quickly caught fire in 2015. With her release of two albums, most recently Punisher, a combination…
Despite, or perhaps because of, the tumultuous and emotionally taxing behemoth that has been 2020, this year has actually been pretty good for music. In the wake of a global pandemic, a reckoning of racial justice reform, a slogging American presidential election, and a dozen more grievances, musicians found themselves affected by 2020 in multitude…
Phoebe Bridgers isn’t afraid of the dark. In fact she’s steadily barreling toward it, digging through bleakness to find moments of truth, playing a constant balancing act between literal and surreal. Her voice reflects the ideological touchstones of her generation (anxiety, distrust of authority, the blurred lines between friendship and romance), while cutting into the…
