trying to be cool about it

If there is a recurring theme to be found in Phoebe Bridgers’ second solo LP, “it’s the idea of having these inner personal issues while there’s bigger turmoil in the world—like a diary about your crush during the apocalypse,” she tells. “I’ll torture myself for five days about confronting a friend, while way bigger shit is happening. It just feels stupid, like wallowing. But my intrusive thoughts are about my personal life.” Recorded when she wasn’t on the road, Punisher is a set of folk and bedroom pop that’s at once comforting and haunting, a refuge and a fever dream. “Sometimes I’ll get the question, like, ‘Do you identify as an LA songwriter?’ Or ‘Do you identify as a queer songwriter?’ And I’m like, ‘No. I’m what I am,’” the Pasadena native says. “The things that are going on are what’s going on, so of course every part of my personality and every part of the world is going to seep into my music. But I don’t set out to make specific things, I just look back and I’m like: ‘Oh. That’s what I was thinking about.’” 

if you know then you know, and i know it oh i know it, i'm your eastside girl

lucy dacus on the cover of BRICKS magazine’s “i support you” issue – shot by anna lowry [x]