The first single off Phoebe Bridgers’ TBA sophomore album has finally arrived. We’ve been anticipating Phoebe Bridgers‘ followup to her classic 2017 debut album “Stranger in the Alps” for a while, though she still hasn’t announced the album, she did just release her first proper solo single since 2017 and confirmed that the album is on the way. The song is called “Garden Song,” it was made with Stranger In The Alps producers/collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, and it finds Phoebe adding a synthy touch to her melancholic songwriting, which remains as compelling as ever. The song also comes with a DIY-looking video directed by Phoebe’s brother Jackson, in which Phoebe rips a bong and then really weird shit starts to happen, including an appearance by Tig Notaro in a monk’s costume. Here’s what Phoebe tells Zane Lowe about the song:
I was just thinking about my home town and I was thinking about reoccurring nightmares I have on tour. So on Garden Song my tour manager sings with me – he’s 6 ft 7. He’s a Dutch man named Jeroen. I realized he had the voice of an angel when he was singing Mitski with me in the van and he was two octaves below me and I was like ‘You sound like a Dutch Matt Berninger from The National.
In the time between Stranger in the Alps and “Garden Song,” Phoebe Bridgers released a ton of collaborations (with Matt Berninger, Lord Huron, Manchester Orchestra, Mercury Rev, and more) and formed the groups boygenius (with Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus) and the Better Oblivion Community Center (with Conor Oberst). Phoebe will be hitting road with The 1975 (whose new album she contributed to), with beabadoobee on the bill as well.
“Garden Song” by Phoebe Bridgers, out now on Dead Oceans Records.
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