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Phoebe bridgers bandcamp7/13/2023 ![]() Her debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, won the Mercury prize in 2021 with its closely observed vignettes. Some artists deal in generalities or aphorisms or riddles others drill down into the granular and the personal, mining specifics for universal effect. We learn, too, as Bruiseless spools out, that she is “listening to Loomer” (by My Bloody Valentine) – and that “the person I love is feeding me cheese, and I’m happy”. But the first few seconds of her re-emergence at this low-key gig could not be a more succinct reminder of her appeal: the way she plants emotional depth charges inside a deceptively easygoing musical manner. Parks has been out of sight for some time, putting the finishing touches to her highly anticipated second full-length outing, released this week. “Almost everyone I love has been abused/ And I am included.” ![]() Her band add some loose breakbeats and an intriguing jazzy thrum to a track that is the opening to her new album, My Soft Machine. ![]() ![]() The singer-songwriter emerges from the gloom at the back of this south-west London club’s stage words-first, speaking more than singing – her soft tones recognisable, even before we glimpse her Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral T-shirt and red-tinged, close-cropped hair. ![]()
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