Phoebe Bridgers has shared a new single called "Lost Boys" and announced her first solo album in six years. The album, Lost Weekend, is due out August 14 via Dead Oceans, according to Rolling Stone.
The single opens with filtered vocals through a vocoder effect before Bridgers' familiar voice takes over. "This machine is killing me/I pretended it was make believe," she sings, with celebratory trumpets that call back to her earlier song "Kyoto." The chorus details the "lost boys" in question, who never grow up, never go home, and never spend their lunch money.
The music video was directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat. It features Bridgers at a surreal Renaissance faire where men dressed as knights ride motorcycles into the sun. Actor Skyler Gisondo appears as a gas station cashier-turned-knight in shining armor.
Lost Weekend was produced by Bridgers alongside Jack Antonoff and longtime collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska. Additional production came from Alex G, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter whose credits include studio work with Frank Ocean and Halsey. Bridgers' boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker provided vocals. Christian Lee Hutson contributed acoustic guitar, and Gruska played various instruments. Drummer Marshall Vore, guitarist Harrison Whitford, string arranger Rob Moose, and Bright Eyes' Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott also contributed.
This will be Bridgers' first solo release since her critically acclaimed 2020 album Punisher. She will support the new record with a run of shows called the Lost Tour, kicking off September 15 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The tour will be completely phoneless, continuing a format Bridgers has used at recent surprise acoustic shows. "If any of you stuck an Apple Watch up your ass to record this, please don't post it on the internet," she told a crowd at Madison Square Garden earlier this month. "I'm trusting you."
