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The artist also played two tracks from her new album 'Lost Weekend'
Phoebe Bridgers performed her own version of Nirvana’s celebrated song ‘Lithium’ during an appearance on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. Watch the session below.
The musician delivered a stripped back acoustic interpretation of the track, originally featured on the grunge band’s 1991 record ‘Nevermind’, during the Wednesday, August 19 episode of the established music programme.
Bridgers also played ‘Lost Boys’, the opening single from her latest album ‘Lost Weekend’, alongside another song from the record titled ‘Bobby’.
The complete broadcast is available to stream here, while audio of her ‘Lithium’ cover can be heard below.
The appearance was seemingly taped before Bridgers developed appendicitis and postponed several small UK concerts scheduled for this week. Sharing a hospital bed photograph through Instagram Stories, she wrote: “I got appendicitis for my birthday. Everything in the UK this week will have to move but I’ll make it up to you!!!!”
Released on August 14, ‘Lost Weekend’ marks Bridgers’ third solo studio record. She is also a member of the supergroup Boygenius. The album received high praise from Taylor Swift, who described it as an “absolute triumph in every way”.
NME awarded the record five stars, praising it as “a staggering, strange and stirring opus”. Reviewer Erica Campbell wrote: “Bridgers’ ‘Lost Weekend’ is the opposite of emotional evasion: more a reckoning with herself and the romantic and familial love and loss that have shaped her story and storytelling.”
Campbell continued: “It’s a feat that could only be achieved by a songwriter and musician self-assured in their penmanship and musicality, someone who may have started the journey of writing her third album feeling lost, but by the end wasn’t unmoored at all.”
More recently, Bridgers shared why completing ‘Lost Weekend’ took “forever”, with the album arriving six years after her previous solo project.
