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Punisher (album)

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Punisher is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, released on June 18, 2020, by Dead Oceans. It is the follow-up to her 2017 debut album, Stranger in the Alps.

Punisher
Studio album by
Phoebe Bridgers
ReleasedJune 18, 2020
Recorded2018–2019
StudioSound City (Van Nuys, California)
Genre
Length40:37
LabelDead Oceans
Producer
Phoebe Bridgers chronology
Better Oblivion Community Center
(2019)		 Punisher
(2020)		 Copycat Killer
(2020)
Singles from Punisher
  1. "Garden Song"
    Released: February 26, 2020
  2. "Kyoto"
    Released: April 9, 2020
  3. "ICU"
    Released: May 19, 2020
  4. "I Know the End"
    Released: July 29, 2020[1]
  5. "Savior Complex"
    Released: December 7, 2020[2]

Punisher was recorded over a year and a half period at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and reunited Bridgers with producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, who also engineered Stranger. Its recording process was collaborative with its liner notes crediting over two dozen prominent musicians, including Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson, Jim Keltner, Blake Mills, and Conor Oberst. Bridgers released five singles "Garden Song", "Kyoto", "ICU", "I Know the End" and "Savior Complex" in support of the album. Upon its release, the album attracted acclaim from music critics, who celebrated its open lyricism.

Background

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American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers rose to prominence in indie rock in the late 2010s with a blend of subdued and specific songwriting.[3] In 2017, she released her debut album, Stranger in the Alps, on the independent label Dead Oceans. The LP received widespread acclaim from critics.[4] John Mayer commented that the single "Funeral" heralded "the arrival of a giant."[5]

In the wake of her first album, Bridgers guested on songs with the National, Fiona Apple, the 1975, and Jackson Browne.[6] In 2018, she co-founded the supergroup boygenius with musicians Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus in the lead-up to a joint tour.[7][8] She also formed Better Oblivion Community Center with Conor Oberst—a friend who had previously appeared on Stranger— releasing their first album in January 2019.[9][10] She also worked closely with singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson, producing his album, Beginners.[3] Ryan Leas, writing for Stereogum, observed that Bridgers' growing body of work—particularly before releasing a second album—was already "diverse and complex".[11]

Writing and production

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Bridgers first began developing Punisher while on the road touring, with multiple songs written during the Stranger in the Alps roll-out.[12] Ethan Gruska and Tony Berg, who produced Stranger, produced the album with Bridgers.[13] She described the process as collaborative, with Bridgers drawing inspiration from friends and collaborators during the process, including Berg, Gruska, her boygenius band-mates, and Oberst.[13] Bridgers also identified drummer Marshall Vore, whom she had also dated, as her "go-to guy" while brainstorming song lyrics.[14] Bridgers reworked lyrics frequently,[15] occasionally preserving jokey lyrics originally intended as placeholders.[14]

While working on Punisher, the essays of Joan Didion provided inspiration to Bridgers, a lifelong Southern Californian.[15] She also read and drew from the novel The Last Policeman, which follows a detective determined to solve a murder as the world ends.[15] The podcast My Favorite Murder and her general interest in true crime similarly influenced the album.[16] Bridgers's dog Max died during the recording process, which she said tinged the work with "just a dark, more adult take on life."[16]

Elliott Smith, who she's described as one of her heroes,[17] provides the basis for the title track, where Bridgers imagines him placating her as a too-eager superfan, known as a punisher.[15][5] Bridgers thought she might self-title the album, but settled on Punisher as a self-descriptor that sounded cool.[11] As she put it to Stereogum:

I have an opposite response to it now, but I definitely, for most of my life, was a punisher. [...] I would come up to people and ask for a picture. I hung out at the bottom of the stairs for James Blake at the Troubadour where there is no other exit. I was like, “He's trapped, but he'll be glad to talk to me.” And now it's happened to me.

Punisher was primarily recorded at Sound City in Van Nuys, California, where producer Tony Berg worked.[12]The album hosts multiple guest performers, many appearing because they were simply around the studio at the time, including veteran percussionist Jim Keltner who performs twice on the album and musician Blake Mills—then a Sound City artist-in-residence—who plays on three songs.[12]

Bridgers recorded the album sporadically from mid-2018 through late 2019.[13] The album came together in a sequential order; many songs were recorded in the order they appear on the album.[18] For the title track, Gruska utilized samples of birds, a Mellotron and a back-masked clip of Bridgers' voice that fade in and out at various points in the song. Bridgers referred to the technique as "riding the faders", which she learned from engineer Joseph Lorge.[12] Bridgers also continued her practice of double tracking all of her vocals as a tribute to her favorite artist, singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.[14] In a review, music critic Lindsay Zoladz wrote that the album mixes Bridgers' "arpeggiated guitar work" with "looping synths and eerily groaning strings."[19]

Themes

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The repeating refrain from the conclusion of "I Know the End"

Punisher has been described as an indie rock,[20] emo-folk, and indie folk album.[21] Lyrically, it tackles themes of "missed connections, the tension between the inner and outer self, [and] the lonely ache of watching things end."[14] Quinn Moreland of Pitchfork interpreted the LP as born from "languid spells of depression, desire, and self-destruction".[16]

Bridgers' songwriting ranges from sardonic to sharply honest;[18] Zoladz observed that Bridgers "weav[es] tiny, specific, time-stamped details (chemtrails, Saltines, serotonin) into durable big-tent tapestries of feeling."[19] Altogether, the album chronicles Bridgers' personal journey towards therapy and being able to better enjoy life. While Stranger is rooted in trauma, Punisher identifies tools she used to deal with that trauma.[18]

Songs

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"Kyoto" recounts Bridgers' experience with dissociation during a trip to the Japanese city

Tracks 1-4

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The instrumental "DVD Menu" opens the LP and segues into "Garden Song", the album's lead single. "Garden Song" centers on self-manifestation and how one's actions can push things into motion. Bridgers drew a parallel to "Smoke Signals", the lead single from Stranger in the Alps, with both tracks being love songs, albeit from different perspectives.[11] The song imagines a haunted garden, where Bridgers implies she's hidden the body of a skinhead neighbor.[5] Amanda Petrusich described the synthesize-based production as "lush and wet."[5] "Kyoto" stemmed from her complex relationship with her father, for whom she had "so much fucking empathy and so much fucking anger".[5] The narrative also follows Bridgers on a trip to Japan, exploring a theme of dissociation she felt applied to most other songs on the album.[11] "Kyoto" has been described as one of the catchier songs on the album; its upbeat tone was suggested by Berg and Gruska, who felt the album had too many slow ballads.[22] After it had moved away from the ballad format, Bridgers suggested incorporating trumpets,[22] in the style of Sufjan Stevens or The Smiths.[11] The title track imagines Bridgers as a punisher—or overbearing superfan—for her musical hero Elliott Smith.[5] The song indirectly references Smith's Either/Or and other aspects of his life and work.[23]

Tracks 5-8

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"Halloween" centers on a decaying relationship that is being clung to until the holidays.[6] The song's development took over a year and a half, with Bridgers struggling with a verse. Conor Oberst, who sings in the song's second half, suggested she write about a topic she brought up frequently: the murder of a Giants fan by a group of Dodger fans at Dodger Stadium amidst the Dodgers–Giants rivalry.[24][25] "Moon Song" romanticizes a lover who hates themselves. Many commentators singled out the couplet "We hate 'Tears in Heaven'/But it's sad that his baby died" as particularly memorable: these lines refer to guitarist Eric Clapton's account of his son's tragic death.[11] She wrote the melody to follow-up song "Savior Complex" in a dream,[3] a folk rock and baroque indie pop waltz,[26][27] which carries on the subject of a difficult relationship.[11] The song's music video, directed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, features ex-boyfriend Paul Mescal and is filmed in Scotland.[28] "ICU"—as in intensive care unit—has been called a "devastating breakup song"[3] and recounts Bridgers' breakup with collaborator Marshall Vore, who remains her touring drummer and confidant.[11] It contains the lyric "I hate your mom/I hate it when she opens her mouth," which stemmed from an altercation Bridgers had with an ex's mother, who argued with her about President Donald Trump while grocery shopping.[3] Bridgers briefly re-titled the song "I See You" upon its debut, so as to remain sensitive to those suffering from COVID-19, but the name was reverted upon the album's release and remains "ICU" on physical editions.

Tracks 9-11

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Bridgers penned "Graceland Too"—a country-tinged, lyrical folk, and banjo-led ballad that sonically references her love of bluegrass[26][29][10]—on a trip to Nashville to visit her bandmates in boygenius, who later added vocals to the song.[3] The title references a shrine and tourist attraction to Elvis Presley, south of the original Graceland in the U.S. state of Mississippi. To Bridgers, the locale is used as a vehicle and a "cheap" way to express her feelings.[11] "I Know the End" which starts as a folk song,[27] went through several different iterations and was both the first song to be developed and the last to see completion. Bridgers and Vore first developed the song as a depiction of tour-related depression. Its third verse depicts a coastal drive to visit her relatives in northern California where she saw a SpaceX launch that resembled a spaceship.[11] Bridgers sings of passing a highway billboard that reads "the end is near". A chorus of guest vocalists join in and collide in a cacophony of screams.[8]

Release

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Punisher was highly anticipated.[30] The album's first single, "Garden Song", was released on February 26, 2020,[31] with its follow-up, "Kyoto", seeing release on April 9 of that year.[32] The album's third single "ICU" (retitled "I See You") was released on May 19, 2020.[33]

The LP was scheduled for release on June 19[32]—or Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the U.S.—but Bridgers opted to release it early on digital services on June 18, with an announcement encouraging fans to donate to organizations seeking racial justice.[34][35] It debuted during a worldwide quarantine related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and amid a period of civil unrest in the U.S., with citizens protesting the murder by police of George Floyd and other people of color. "I'm not [delaying] the record until things go back to 'normal' because I don't think they should," Bridgers wrote on Twitter.[36]

Touring plans for Punisher were postponed due to the pandemic. Bridgers was scheduled to open for the 1975 on a stadium tour.[10] Bridgers announced a headlining tour which ran from August 2021 to September 2023, featuring stops in North America, Europe, and Asia.[37]

Copycat Killer

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Bridgers released Copycat Killer on November 20, 2020. The EP features orchestral versions of four songs from Punisher, produced by Rob Moose.[38] Sale for the accompanying vinyl was limited at 1500 copies in Rough Trade record stores.[38] Copycat Killer reached a peak position of 78 on the Billboard 200 in May 2021.[39] The title comes from a lyric in the title track where she describes herself as a "copycat killer with a chemical cut", equating her inspiration from and aping of Elliott Smith with the behavior of a copycat serial killer.[40]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.4/10[41]
Metacritic90/100[42]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarStar[43]
The A.V. ClubA−[29]
Consequence of SoundA−[44]
The Daily TelegraphStarStarStarStarStar[45]
The IndependentStarStarStarStar[46]
The Line of Best Fit8/10[47]
NMEStarStarStarStarStar[48]
Pitchfork8.7/10[49]
Rolling StoneStarStarStarStar[30]
Slant MagazineStarStarStarStar[50]

Punisher received widespread acclaim from music critics. The album has a score of 90 out of 100 on Metacritic, indicating "universal acclaim", based on 31 reviews.[51]

Pitchfork's Sam Sodomsky designated it with the publication's "Best New Music" tag, calling it "marvelous, [...] candid, multi-dimensional, slyly psychedelic, and full of heart. Her music has become a world unto itself."[49] Jonathan Bernstein from Rolling Stone called the work visionary, "eleven expertly rendered, largely downcast songs about broken faith, desperate, occasionally self-destructive love, and tenuous recovery."[30] NME gave the album a perfect score, writing, "The LA songwriter's ability to paint this lingering feeling of dread so vividly is perhaps the biggest factor in her rapid rise to cultish indie household name; just look at the state of the world right now."[52]

David Sackllah of Consequence of Sound gave the album an A−, writing "Punisher beams with a restless energy and twisted dream logic that erupts into striking moments of clarity in a way reminiscent of the National's Boxer.[44] Fred Thomas at AllMusic opined that the LP "reaches new depths [...] It's an album of shockingly self-aware explorations of dark feelings and Bridgers is more willing than ever before to throw herself headlong into the darkness."[29] Alexandra Pollard from The Independent felt that Bridgers "sharpened and broadened her songwriting" on the album;[46] New York Times contributor Lindsay Zoladz designated it as a "critic's pick".[8]

Robert Christgau was less enthusiastic, highlighting the songs "ICU" and "Graceland Too" while summarizing the album's merits with the following statement: "If articulated depression is what you crave, does she have lyrical and musical detail for you—philosophical solace or melodic relief, no".[53]

Accolades

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Year-end lists

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Critics' rankings for Punisher
Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
The A.V. Club The 20 Best Albums of 2020
2
Billboard The 50 Best Albums of 2020
15
Consequence of Sound The 50 Best Albums of 2020
3
Esquire The 50 Best Albums of 2020
1
The Fader The 50 Best Albums of 2020
5
The Guardian The 50 Best Albums of 2020
16
GQ (UK) Best Albums of 2020
2
The New Yorker The Best Music of 2020
10
The New York Times Lindsay Zoladz's Best Albums of 2020
2
NME The 50 Best Albums of 2020
5
NPR The 50 Best Albums of 2020
4
Paste The 50 Best Albums of 2020
14
Pitchfork The 50 Best Albums of 2020
4
PopSugar The 50 Best Albums of 2020
14
Rolling Stone The 50 Best Albums of 2020
10
Slate The Best Albums of 2020
1
Spin The 30 Best Albums of 2020
7
Stereogum The Top 50 Best Albums of 2020
28
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2020
1
Uproxx The Best Albums of 2020
15
Us Weekly 10 Best Albums of 2020
7
USA Today The 10 Best Albums of 2020
8
Variety Chris Willman's Albums of 2020
7
Jem Aswad's Albums of 2020
6
Vulture The Best Albums of 2020
5

Awards

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Awards and nominations for Punisher
Year Ceremony Category Nominated Work Result Ref.
2021 Grammy Awards Best Alternative Music Album Punisher Nominated [79]
Best Rock Performance "Kyoto" Nominated
Best Rock Song Nominated

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."DVD Menu"Phoebe Bridgers1:09
2."Garden Song"
3:39
3."Kyoto"
3:04
4."Punisher"
3:09
5."Halloween"
  • Bridgers
  • Hutson
  • Oberst
4:31
6."Chinese Satellite"
  • Bridgers
  • Oberst
  • Vore
3:37
7."Moon Song"Bridgers4:37
8."Savior Complex"
  • Bridgers
  • Hutson
  • Oberst
4:01
9."ICU"
  • Bridgers
  • Vore
  • Nicholas White
3:10
10."Graceland Too"
  • Bridgers
  • Hutson
3:56
11."I Know the End"
  • Bridgers
  • Hutson
  • Oberst
  • Vore
5:44
Total length:40:37

Personnel

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Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.

Musicians

Charts

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Certifications

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Certifications for Punisher
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[101] Gold 100,000‡
United States (RIAA)[102] Gold 500,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

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