Get in, losers: We’re going to the Renaissance faire. Phoebe Bridgers just announced her first solo album in six years, Lost Weekend, and now she’s shared the first taste of that album — a new single called “Lost Boys.”
The single opens with a few seconds of filtered vocals through a vocoder effect before Bridgers’ familiar voice enters. “This machine is killing me/I pretended it was make believe,” she later sings, with celebratory trumpets that hark back to “Kyoto.” The chorus is euphoric, as Bridgers details the “lost boys” in question, who never grow up, never go home, and never spend their lunch money. “Lost boys find me,” she sings.
The video above, directed by Lance Oppenheim and Pablo Rochat, features Bridgers at a surreal Renaissance faire where men dressed as knights ride motorcycles into the sun, Bridgers is a magical damsel, and actor Skyler Gisondo is a gas station cashier-turned-knight in shining armor.
“Lost Weekend” was produced by Bridgers, Jack Antonoff, and Bridgers’ longtime collaborators Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, with additional production by Alex G (the Philadelphia singer-songwriter whose credits also include studio work with Frank Ocean and Halsey). The credits feature several other members from Bridgers’ close circle: Her boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker provided vocals, Christian Lee Hutson lent a hand on acoustic guitar, and Gruska played various instruments. Drummer Marshall Vore, guitarist Harrison Whitford, string master Rob Moose, and Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott also contributed.
The new single arrives one day after Bridgers announced Lost Weekend, out Aug. 14 via Dead Oceans. This will mark her first solo release since 2020’s acclaimed Punisher. She’ll support the album with a series of shows billed as the Lost Tour, which kicks off on Sept. 15 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Just like the intimate acoustic shows she recently surprised fans with across the country, the Lost Tour will be completely phoneless. “If any of you stuck an Apple Watch up your ass to record this, please don’t post it on the internet,” she told the crowd earlier this month, at Madison Square Garden. “I’m trusting you.”