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Today sees the highly anticipated release of new solo material from Phoebe Bridgers. “Garden Song”, accompanied by a video directed by Bridgers’ brother Jackson Bridgers, is out now on Dead Oceans.
The past two and a half years have seen the Pasadena, California native go from unknown singer/songwriter to one of music’s most lauded young stars. In September 2017, at the age of 23, she released her debut album Stranger In The Alps and quickly found an audience for her intimate and confessional songs. The New York Times noted that Stranger In The Alps was an album that “set the bar for a new generation of singer-songwriters.” A European tour with Conor Oberst led the pair to form a “supergroup” of sorts – Better Oblivion Community Center – and an acclaimed eponymous album released in early 2019. Before that, Bridgers recorded and toured with another collaborative outfit – boygenius – a trio formed with the musicians Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker. Their enthralling six song EP topped music critics’ Year End lists in 2018. Most recently, Bridgers dueted with The National’s Matt Berninger on his debut solo single “Walking On A String” and united with Berninger and Fiona Apple for a charity Christmas single: a cover of Simon and Garfunkel’s “7 O’Clock News/ Silent Night” to benefit Planned Parenthood.
“Garden Song” was recorded at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California and produced by Bridgers and her Stranger In The Alps producers/collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska. For the video, Bridgers asked her younger brother Jackson to film her smoking a bong and to then “surprise” her with what happens next. For a non-smoker, the effect was particularly strong and the resulting video captures Bridgers being weirded out by various furry monsters and – at one point – the comedian/author Tig Notaro in a monk’s costume.
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