Phoebe Bridgers by Frank Ockenfels
Phoebe Bridgers puts a fresh take on Punisher.
New recordings of four tracks from this year’s Punisher album will make up Phoebe Bridgers‘ new EP Copycat Killer.
Out on November 20th, it’ll carry updated versions of Kyoto, Savior Complex, Chinese Satellite and Punisher, recorded with arranger and string player Rob Moose.
To acknowledge Punisher’s high placing on the label’s Albums Of The Year list, vinyl copies of Copycat Killer will initially be available exclusively through Rough Trade.
Punisher has proved to be a stand-out here at Live4ever too, our review describing it as, ‘standing up to be counted proudly’:
“These playful and incongruous passages give some light, but they can’t always distract from a raft of plangent lyrics, as on Moon Song’s aching, slow burn dissolution; ‘But you’re holding me like water in your hands/When you saw the dead little bird/You started crying’.”
“Against this backdrop, risks are laughed at, ICU swelling, a love song in reverse, eroded rock and roll that bleeds from the nose, while the apocalyptic sounding finish of closer I Know The End sees the transformation complete; there’s no longer a place for Phoebe Bridgers other than the one that she chooses for herself.”
