Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Boys review – ghosts, guns and guileless youth on generational songwriter’s return (opens in new tab)

(Dead Oceans)The US singer took years off after becoming ‘world-weary’ of public life – and in the meantime, her silvery balladry reshaped pop. Her return is an ornate reinventionIn the press materials for ’ return, the 31-year-old US singer talks about taking time to make her third album after coming to feel “a little world-weary” about public life. Who could blame her? Bridgers became a figure of invasive parasocial behaviour from fans after her spooked, sad second album, 2020’s Even her re...