Phoebe Bridgers is a singer-songwriter from Pasadena, California, born 1994, and one third of Boygenius alongside her Saddest Factory label work. Punisher (2020) earned four Grammy nominations and ranks among the decade's defining indie folk records; Stranger in the Alps (2017) started it all. Shop Phoebe Bridgers vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Phoebe Lucille Bridgers was born in Pasadena, California on August 17, 1994. She launched her recording career as a teenager and signed with Dead Oceans (Secretly Group's indie subsidiary) for her 2017 debut Stranger in the Alps. Her 2020 follow-up Punisher - released amid the pandemic-era music release pause - was widely cited as one of the most important indie folk and indie rock albums of the 2020s, with commercial success and four Grammy nominations at the 2021 ceremony (including Best New Artist). She has parallel work as one-third of the supergroup Boygenius (with Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker) - Boygenius released their 2018 self-titled EP and 2023 LP the record (Album of the Year Grammy nomination, won Best Rock Album and Best Rock Performance at the 2024 Grammys). She launched Saddest Factory Records as her Dead Oceans imprint in 2020 - launching and promoting artists including MUNA, Indigo De Souza, Sloppy Jane, and others. She also collaborated with Conor Oberst as Better Oblivion Community Center (2019 self-titled). She has been involved in social justice activism, particularly around reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and broader contemporary progressive politics.
Phoebe Bridgers's sound combines indie folk, indie rock, alternative rock, dream pop, slowcore, and singer-songwriter with her distinctive intimate vocal delivery, atmospheric production approaches (use of strings, brass, and layered electric and acoustic guitars), and lyrical content addressing mortality, relationships, mental health, and personal experience drawing on literary and confessional songwriting traditions.
Dead Oceans and Saddest Factory pressings of the Phoebe Bridgers catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and elaborate limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand.
Listeners new to Phoebe Bridgers typically start with Punisher (2020) or Stranger in the Alps (2017).
