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Killer
Singer-Songwriter · 2014 · 5 tracks · 20m

Killer

Five tracks of stark, unadorned acoustic folk. Just a voice and a guitar captured in their rawest, most fragile state before the studio polish.

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It's just Phoebe and her acoustic guitar in a room, sounding so close you can hear her breathe.

An unvarnished, quiet grief that feels like a secret whispered directly to you in an empty room.

Killer · vs · Phoebe Bridgers
Sparse Bare+2.3σ

The production is built around sparse bare than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 5 Tracks · 20m
01
Chelsea
5:28
02
Georgia
4:26
03
Killer
2:37
04
Turned Around
4:02
05
Whatever
3:58
Moments Worth Waiting For
The stark, unadorned fingerpicking pattern that opens Chelsea, setting a fragile and immediate tone.
The raw, cracking vulnerability in the vocal delivery during the climax of Georgia, stripped of any studio sheen.
The chillingly intimate silence between the guitar chords on the title track Killer, making the listener feel in the room.
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Reviews
Slant Magazine4/ 5 stars
“The singer addresses a generation resistant to defining itself against a backdrop of perpetual catastrophe”
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Sputnik Music
“Her ability to turn a phrase, her gorgeous voice, and her sheer charm can justify a lot, but she needs more than those tricks in her bag to sustain what will hopefully be a long and fruitful career”
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Rolling Stone4/ 5 stars
“The ambitious singer-songwriter evokes influences from Warren Zevon to Joan Didion”
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Pitchfork8.7/ 10
“On her marvelous second album, Phoebe Bridgers defines her songwriting: candid, multi-dimensional, slyly psychedelic, and full of heart. Her music has become a world unto itself”
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The Guardian
“The LA songsmith’s second album doesn’t disappoint”
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NME5/ 5 stars
“Bridgers’ voice is as clear as ever, and sonically, she expands from the foundations set down by her breakthrough 2018 debut album ‘Stranger In The Alps’”
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The Line of Best Fit8/ 10
“Punisher is a literary and musical triumph on the nature and meaning of storytelling”
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Under the Radar
“Bridgers is ironically at her best on Punisher when she finds herself the most disoriented”
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The Independent4/ 5 stars
“On her second record, Bridgers has both sharpened and broadened her songwriting, with meditations on homesickness, love, depression and Ryan Adams”
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Consequence of SoundA-
“A remarkable record that dazzles and beams with restless energy and twisted dream logic”
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The Quietus
“With her second album, Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers expands her sonic palette and sharpens her lyrical knives”
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AllMusic5/ 5 stars
“It’s an album of shockingly self-aware explorations of dark feelings and Bridgers is more willing than ever before to throw herself headlong into the darkness”
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