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Phoebe Bridgers Sings about Love and Death and the Whole Damn Thing in ‘Lost Weekend,’ a Captivating Record Worth the Six-Year Wait: Album Review

If there's anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it's land a punch line. There are a lot of them in "Lost Weekend," her first solo record in six years, and she doesn't waste any time in getting to the first of the album's many great jokes.

Phoebe Bridgers Sings about Love and Death and the Whole Damn Thing in ‘Lost Weekend,’ a Captivating Record Worth the Six-Year Wait: Album Review

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If there's anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it's land a punch line.

There are a lot of them in "Lost Weekend," her first solo record in six years, and she doesn't waste any time in getting to the first of the album's many great jokes.

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If there's anything Phoebe Bridgers knows how to do, it's land a punch line. There are a lot of them in "Lost Weekend," her first solo record in six years, and she doesn't waste any time in getting to the first of the album's many great jokes. Possibly the most quotable couplet comes right in […]

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