Will Phoebe Bridgers release new music in 2025?
Take a deep breath before I say this, and brace yourself: Covid was over half a decade ago now. It is truly bizarre, not just in the sense that time seems to slip away more quickly as you get older, but that the past five years have just been like a vortex, gone in the blink of an eye but with so much left in between. Then you get to thinking about the faces you’ve seen over that time, and Phoebe Bridgers is one that doesn’t seem as present as it used to be.
After a double-bill of stellar albums in the form of Stranger in the Alps in 2017, followed by Punisher in 2020, to all intents and purposes, it looked as though Bridgers was bound to be hot on the heels of the third instalment in her trilogy. Instead, tumbleweed. For five years, no one has heard a peep on any kind of forthcoming solo material, begging the question as to whether it will ever come to the light of day at all.
Yes, of course, there was The Record by Boygenius in 2023, so admittedly, she hasn’t been completely silent in all that time. But even if you were to follow that trail, it would still turn up cold – since then, fellow members Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker have both released albums in their own respective capacities, leaving the ticking clock awaiting Bridgers’ next effort growing ever louder.
So, where exactly has she got to? The honest answer is that no one really knows. Granted, I appreciate that may be highly anticlimactic to some, but the total and utter radio silence on Bridgers’ end for the best part of the last 18 months is an increasing cause of concern. It’s not quite yet on the scale of launching a manhunt to find her, but it could soon be heading in that very direction.
What could Phoebe Bridgers be doing now?
What little clues there are, we can possibly piece together through an interview Bridgers gave to Vanity Fair along with the rest of Boygenius in February last year, in which she said: “I made the decision three years ago to take a massive step back. I think we all want a little break. I can’t function if I do anything in 2024 that is public. The boys have been my biggest supporters in that.”
Sure, the hiatus may have gone on longer than expected, but Bridgers’ step back from the limelight could be giving her food for thought.
After Dacus released Forever Is a Feeling in March and Julien Baker put out Send A Prayer My Way with Torres the following month, all indications would suggest that Boygenius are in the firm depths of creating solo material. You can’t imagine an artist of Bridgers’ calibre – and arguably the most famous of the three – would be any different. With no suggestions of any creative block or label upheaval, here’s hoping it’s only a matter of time.
People talk about having bingo cards for the year – I’ll be honest, a new Bridgers album was on mine. It may have been slightly delusional or too optimistic, but one is allowed to dream. Boygenius deliberately have taken time out to focus on their own individual ventures, so for now, all that’s left to do is wait for the final piece of the puzzle to finally release her next chapter… whenever that may be.
