The primary single from Misplaced Weekend options Jack Antonoff, Alex G, her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and extra
Get in, losers: We’re going to the Renaissance faire. Phoebe Bridgers simply introduced her first solo album in six years, Misplaced Weekend, and now she’s shared the primary style of that album — a brand new single referred to as “Misplaced Boys.”
The only opens with just a few seconds of filtered vocals by a vocoder impact earlier than Bridgers’ acquainted voice enters. “This machine is killing me/I pretended it was make imagine,” she later sings, with celebratory trumpets that hark again to “Kyoto.” The refrain is euphoric, as Bridgers particulars the “misplaced boys” in query, who by no means develop up, by no means go dwelling, and by no means spend their lunch cash. “Misplaced boys discover me,” she sings.
The video above, directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat, options Bridgers at a surreal Renaissance faire the place males dressed as knights experience bikes into the solar, Bridgers is a magical damsel, and actor Skyler Gisondo is a fuel station cashier-turned-knight in shining armor.
“Misplaced Weekend” was produced by Bridgers, Jack Antonoff, and Bridgers’ longtime collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, with extra manufacturing by Alex G (the Philadelphia singer-songwriter whose credit additionally embrace studio work with Frank Ocean and Halsey). The credit characteristic a number of different members from Bridgers’ shut circle: Her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker offered vocals, Christian Lee Hutson lent a hand on acoustic guitar, and Gruska performed varied devices. Drummer Marshall Vore, guitarist Harrison Whitford, string grasp Rob Moose, and Vibrant Eyes’ Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott additionally contributed.
The brand new single arrives at some point after Bridgers introduced Misplaced Weekend, out Aug. 14 through Lifeless Oceans. This may mark her first solo launch since 2020’s acclaimed Punisher. She’ll assist the album with a collection of reveals billed because the Misplaced Tour, which kicks off on Sept. 15 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Identical to the intimate acoustic reveals she not too long ago stunned followers with throughout the nation, the Misplaced Tour might be fully phoneless. “If any of you caught an Apple Watch up your ass to file this, please don’t put up it on the web,” she advised the group earlier this month, at Madison Sq. Backyard. “I’m trusting you.”
