Phoebe Bridgers' "Punisher" Showcases Candid, Multi-Dimensional Songwriting
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Sam Sodomsky
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A review of Phoebe Bridgers' second album "Punisher," highlighting her songwriting as candid, multi-dimensional, and slyly psychedelic. The piece focuses on her ability to capture moments of collapse and anxiety, using the closing track "I Know the End" as a key example of how she tethers personal anxiety to apocalyptic imagery.
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· 3 pulledPhoebe Bridgers is a master of collapse.
When I get back I'll lay around/Then I'll get up and lay back down
Across the song's two halves, she tethers the anxiety of leaving home to a vivid depiction of an actual apocalypse
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