Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Weekend (Vinyl 2LP)

Lost Weekend is Phoebe Bridgers' third studio album and her first solo release in six years, following Punisher in 2020. It keeps the indie-folk foundation of her earlier work while moving further into electronica and ambient textures, and it centres on her father, Tony Bridgers, who died in 2022. Bridgers produced it alongside Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska and Jack Antonoff, with additional production from Alex G, and the sessions ran through Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Electric Lady in New York and Tamarind in Los Angeles. The cast is long and unusually broad, taking in her boygenius bandmates Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson, Bo Burnham, Caroline Shaw, Chris Thile and Nickel Creek, Conor Oberst, Blake Mills, Meg Duffy, session drummer Jim Keltner, and, at the heavier end, Justin K Broadrick and Mike Kinsella. Mike Mogis mixed at ARC Studios in Omaha, with Oli Jacobs mixing the closing track, and Ruairi O'Flaherty mastered at Sterling Sound, where Joe Nino-Hernes cut the lacquers. Sixteen tracks are numbered across the first three sides, with a seventeenth, "Best Dressed", closing side D. Both "Lost Weekend" and its reprise carry elements of Damien Jurado's "The Last Great Washington State", and the title track samples Paul Lansky. Bridgers won three Grammy Awards with boygenius for the record in the years between solo albums.