Phoebe Bridgers announces new album ‘Lost Weekend’, her first in six years
After a run of phoneless pop-up shows across the country, the singer-songwriter has finally announced the follow-up to 2020's ‘Punisher’
Phoebe Bridgers fans, rejoice: PB3 is officially on the way. The singer-songwriter announced her new album, Lost Weekend, out August 14 via her longtime label, Dead Oceans.
Lost Weekend marks Bridgers’ third solo album, following 2020’s breakthrough Punisher. A track list for the new record has yet to be revealed, but Bridgers has been performing several new songs in her recent series of phoneless pop-up shows at small clubs across the country. That run began in Roswell, New Mexico on May 8, and capped with an arena show at New York’s Madison Square Garden on June 4. “If any of you stuck an Apple Watch up your ass to record this, please don’t post it on the internet,” she told the internet-free crowd at the Garden. “I’m trusting you.”
Prior to these shows, Bridgers had kept a low profile since releasing The Record with her supergroup boygenius (alongside Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker) and going on a tour with them that concluded in February 2024. The Record earned the band six Grammy nominations, while Bridgers received four nods for Punisher.
It’s unclear if the new album title has anything to do with John Lennon’s infamous ‘Lost Weekend’ period, as the former Beatle’s debauched 18-month separation from his wife, Yoko Ono, starting in 1973 is known. Bridgers sang about Lennon on the Punisher track ‘Moon Song,’ and spoke to Rolling Stone about him at the time. “Easily best Beatle,” she said. “He’s been such an icon for so many people who are my heroes, like Elliott Smith and Daniel Johnston.”
Bridgers will kick off the Lost Tour on September 15 in Indianapolis, continuing with dates throughout the fall. She announced the trek with an image captured by fine-art photographer Gregory Crewdson, who gave an exclusive interview to Rolling Stone about their collaboration. “There was an alliance there, with a sense of mystery and loneliness, and wanting to make connections about landscape and all that,” Crewdson said. “It’s a coming together between Phoebe’s world and my world.”