7/30/2020

Phoebe Bridgers Shares New Video For "I Know The End"

Phoebe Bridgers Shares New Video For “I Know The End”

Watch “I Know The End” HERE
(Photo credit: Frank Ockenfels)

Wednesday, July 29 - Los Angeles, California 

Last month, Phoebe Bridgers released her second solo album, Punisher, to international acclaim. A deluge of rave reviews was followed by her first #1 on a Billboard Chart - “Emerging Artists” - and two #1 Radio Chart Placements - on FMBQ’s Non-Comm and College Radio Charts - plus a debut in the Top Ten UK Album Chart at #6

Today, she unveils the third video from Punisher, a creepy and dramatic companion to the album’s rousing closer “I Know The End”. Directed by Alissa Torvinen, the video includes a finalé shot at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Described by Rolling Stone as a “sound-collage crescendo... with a disorienting jolt of choking pop dystopia, as Bridgers zooms out on a fractured American heartland of slaughterhouses, outlet malls and slot machines that pass by endlessly.”, “I Know The End” has been singled out by fans and critics alike as one of Bridgers’ most potent songs to date. 
Phoebe Bridgers - I Know the End (Official Video)
Watch The Video For “I Know The End” HERE

The video release follows Bridgers’ previous videos Garden Song” and “Kyoto.” (Watch her perform “Kyoto” as karaoke for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert HERE.

Bridgers was also announced as part of the line up for Newport Folk Festival’s Folk On Revival Weekend. She’s featured in the ticketed event as part of the Mavis Staples Birthday Celebration, recorded in LA at The Theater at the Ace Hotel in May 2019. Tickets for the virtual event - taking place July 31st - August 2nd - are available from https://newportfolk.org/revival. Proceeds go to support the work of Newport Festivals Foundation for artists and music education. 

One of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year so far Punisher follows Bridgers’ debut, Stranger in The Alps (2017), the boygenius EP with Julien Baker & Lucy Dacus (2018), and Better Oblivion Community Center, a collaboration with Conor Oberst (2019). 

Praise for Phoebe Bridgers & Punisher:

“Punisher is a fully realized work, crafted with foresight and intention.” - The New Yorker 

“Strange and exquisitely moving.” - New York Times

“A masterpiece in mood setting, the apocalyptic Punisher aches with sadness, but Bridgers doesn't wallow. ... The end of the world rarely sounds this good” - Q Magazine 

"Bridgers has garnered fans by skillfully blending beauty with darkness, and on 
her first new solo material since Alps, she nails it." - Rolling Stone

"Bridgers has already made an indelible mark on contemporary music and Punisher goes a long way in reinforcing the fact that she is a songwriter of intense and passionate depth, capable of crafting melodies that are tender and delicate, while displaying the strength and resiliency that supports her honest and heady lyrics." - WFUV

“The LA songwriter’s ability to paint this lingering feeling of dread so vividly is perhaps the biggest factor in her rapid rise to cultish indie household name.” - NME 

“Whether she intended to do so or not, Phoebe Bridgers has created a musical monument to our dissociative age with Punisher. It’s an album about sleepless nights and sinking feelings in the pit of your stomach, wrapped in a musical package that’s both feather-light and lush enough to run your fingers through.” - AV Club 

Punisher is a dazzling record, one filled with sadness but not overwhelmingly so, full of moments that sting the first time you hear them but burrow deeper into the soul with each listen.” - Consequence Of Sound 

“The record glows with this strange self-sufficiency, an instinct to push forward against bad odds.” - Pitchfork (Best New Music) 

"Her music is the soundtrack for this age." - The Fire Note
“Bridgers’s modernity is actually a kind of timelessness, yet delivered in an emotional and lyrical lexicon that speaks directly to this moment.” - The Daily Telegraph (UK)
 “Bridgers keeps getting better and Punisher affirms this.” - Exclaim! 

“Great songwriters build fully realized worlds in their songs, but on Punisher Bridgers is often able to do it in just a few lines.” - PopMatters

Punisher ends with a thunderstorm of manic, discordant brass and drums and a pained scream, the physical culmination of the undercurrent of doom that has lurked throughout. But you emerge feeling not deflated but purged” - The Independent (UK)
Punisher Album Art
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