Phoebe Bridgers’ Lost Weekend is presented as a striking and more experimental follow-up to her 2020 album Punisher. The review argues that it confronts grief over her father’s death and her relationship with Bo Burnham through music that is more sonically varied, emotionally raw and structurally adventurous than its predecessor.

The opening track, “The Outside”, centres on a funeral and combines dark humour with stark imagery, while the title track abandons conventional structure for a stream of memories and electronic noise. The album incorporates electronic production alongside bluegrass- and Americana-influenced instruments including pedal steel, mandolin and banjo, with contributors said to include Jack Antonoff, Alex G, Christian Lee Hutson, Maya Hawke, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. “Bobby”, featuring Burnham and other friends, is described as an expansive love song approaching the scale of Punisher’s finale.