Lost Weekend

Phoebe Bridgers

Lost Weekend

Third album from the LA indie rock singer-songwriter featuring contributions from Alex G, Jack Antonoff, Julien Baker, Bo Burnham, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson, Caroline Shaw and Chris Thile

ADM rating[?]

8.9

Label
Dead Oceans
UK Release date
14/08/2026
US Release date
14/08/2026
  1. 10.0 |   The Guardian

    After sweeping the Grammys and being scrutinised by the press, Bridgers deploys electronics and unsettling sound design to brilliantly evoke emotional turmoil
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  2. 10.0 |   Rolling Stone UK

    The beloved singer and songwriter reemerges into the spotlight with an ambitious album that finds her exploring new ground to exhilarating effect
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  3. 10.0 |   Northern Transmissions

    Most albums about loss are content to remain within it. This one moves through it, and earns that movement by its conclusion
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  4. 10.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Airier and stranger than anything she has made: 16 songs split between losing her father and falling headlong in love
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  5. 10.0 |   NME

    Bridgers bleeds her pen dry over lush orchestration that tells the story of love and loss as vividly as her words
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  6. 10.0 |   Far Out

    On the whole, the album is already a knockout. Then you arrive at ‘As Above’, and you will hear Bridgers as you have never heard her before
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  7. 10.0 |   Dork

    Produced by Phoebe, Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska and Jack Antonoff (with Alex G offering "additional production"), 'Lost Weekend' is a deliciously strange record
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  8. 9.5 |   A.V. Club

    Phoebe Bridgers’ third solo album is a masterpiece; she shares personal struggles and transmutes them via wide-ranging sonics, pop culture references and universal themes
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  9. 9.1 |   Paste Magazine

    Co-produced alongside Jack Antonoff and Alex G, the singer-songwriter’s first solo album in six years details falling in love, reckoning with grief, and starting over. It’s her most daring, optimistic record yet
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  10. 9.1 |   Consequence Of Sound

    An album of cycles with a lyrical approach as ambitious as anything in modern music
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  11. 9.0 |   Slant Magazine

    The album is a rigorously crafted memorandum charting a period of dissociation
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  12. 9.0 |   Rolling Stone

    After a six-year break between solo projects, the songwriter returns with Lost Weekend, a spectacular song cycle on love and loss
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  13. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    A patient uncoiling of her turbulent past, Phoebe Bridgers’ third album will surprise you in impossible ways
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  14. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    Where Punisher felt apocalyptic with its closing suite "I Know the End" and a hearty dose of divine timing, Lost Weekend is a transmission from a hero's journey back to herself through a dystopian emotional landscape
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  15. 9.0 |   Sputnik Music (staff)

    While Bridgers may have recorded this album from a dark place, the prevailing notes are uplifting
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  16. 9.0 |   Under The Radar

    Both sides of Lost Weekend are essential; the desolate ache of loss makes way for new beginnings, and Phoebe Bridgers stands ready to embrace both on her most well-realized album yet
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  17. 8.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Ultimately, despite the tumultuous few years Bridgers has faced, Lost Weekend triumphs as her strongest body of work to date
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  18. 8.4 |   Pitchfork

    For her third solo album, Phoebe Bridgers expands and contracts, capturing experiences that are strange, solitary, and hers alone. It is the quietest, most cohesive record in her discography
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  19. 8.0 |   Hot Press

    It's the duality of darkness and light that makes Lost Weekend so good
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  20. 8.0 |   The Irish Times

    The singer brilliantly articulates what it’s like to have a lot going on in your head but find the world overwhelming
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  21. 8.0 |   Clash

    ‘Lost Weekend’ doesn’t contain the cohesion of Phoebe Bridgers’ prior works – an album that sometimes feels like a pair of lungs, inhaling and exhaling, it’s capable of stretching and shrinking to suit her mindset
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  22. 8.0 |   DIY

    A dense, introspective opus as complex and unpredictable as its author
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  23. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Of course, it’s Bridgers’ lyrics that have long been the puncta of her songs, renowned for their emotional integrity, vividness and wry humour, and here she’s at the top of her game
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  24. 8.0 |   Mojo

    For a record so defined by absence, Lost Weekend proves, thankfully, that Bridgers is still very much here
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  25. 6.0 |   No Ripcord

    A hot-shot production team, which includes Alex G and the ubiquitous Jack Antonoff alongside regular Bridgers collaborators Ethan Gruska and Tony Berg, adds a professional sheen that sometimes smacks of compromise
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