Tag: Phoebe Bridgers
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BRIDEY Opens Up About Moving On and Leaning In
BRIDEY is a musician whose earnest-yet-whimsical songwriting, unrestrained vocals, and dreamily pure guitar tones combine to evoke a stirring sensation in listeners. She’s been compared to Lucy Dacus, Cat Power, Angel Olsen, and Sharon Van Etten (Van Etten is one of her personal heroes), but her sound is redolent with a variety of influences reaching…
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Live Review and Q&A: Trophy Wife at The Mercury Lounge
As her name would suggest, the musical output of Trophy Wife—the solo project of 21-year-old Berklee student McKenzie Iazzetta—is inherently subversive. Her songwriting and her distinct vocal delivery constantly contradict one another, with lyrics where she leans into the role of the austere and unaffected “cool girl” trudging her way through the endlessly messy charade…
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Phoebe Bridgers “Punisher” Album Review
Phoebe Bridgers is the poetic and sarcastic indie folk musician whose songwriting abilities have garnered comparisons to the likes of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Her debut album “Stranger in the Alps” was dubbed “an emo-folk masterpiece” by Rolling Stone in 2018, and her sophomore album “Punisher” is an instant bleak and fatalistic classic. “Punisher”…