Phoebe Bridgers' 'Lost Weekend' Arrives With a Sprawling Credits Sheet
Phoebe Bridgers released her third studio album, Lost Weekend, on 14 August 2026 via Dead Oceans, and Pitchfork has published the full credits — a roll call that stretches from indie-rock collaborators to a legendary session drummer and a pioneer of computer music.
Bridgers announced the album on her Instagram account on 24 June 2026, sharing the title and release date, and later revealed the track list on the same platform, according to Rolling Stone. The record was promoted through her official website alongside "The Lost Tour," and it debuted in full inside planetariums around the globe in partnership with Spotify.
The credits, published by Pitchfork on release day, reveal a production core of Bridgers herself alongside Tony Berg, Ethan Gruska, Jack Antonoff and Alex G, who share production duties on at least two tracks, 'Lost Boys' and 'Kill Me'. Alex G also appears as a lyricist on 'Lost Boys', alongside Bridgers, Christian Lee Hutson, Marshall Vore and Bo Burnham.
'Lost Boys' stacks vocals from Bridgers, her boygenius bandmates Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, and composer-vocalist Caroline Shaw — a name that connects the record to the contemporary-classical world. The Fader reported the single's vocal and instrumental contributions ahead of the album's release on 15 July 2026.
'Kill Me' widens the circle further. Its vocal credits include Jack Antonoff, Jackson Bridgers, Son-John Johnson, Caroline Shaw, Maria Taylor and Jeroen Vrijhoef. Greg Leisz, a pedal steel guitarist whose career spans sessions for Joni Mitchell and Robert Plant, plays on the track, and Gabe Noel contributes sarangi — a bowed string instrument from the Indian subcontinent.
The range of guest musicians is unusual even for a major release. Jim Keltner, the session drummer whose discography runs from John Lennon and George Harrison to Bob Dylan and the Traveling Wilburys, plays drums on 'The Governor's Waltz'. 'Bobby' credits electric guitar to Justin K Broadrick — best known for the industrial-metal project Godflesh and the shoegaze-adjacent Jesu — and to Mike Kinsella, whose own projects include American Football. Bobby Hawk handles strings on the same track. Under the Radar noted Broadrick's appearance, along with contributions from Alex G, boygenius members and Cameron Winter, on 13 August 2026.
Rob Moose, the string arranger and multi-instrumentalist who has worked with Bon Iver and Taylor Swift, is credited with strings and arrangements across four tracks: 'Lost Boys', 'Kill Me', 'The Governor's Waltz' and 'Lost Weekend'. Mandolinist Chris Thile, a MacArthur Fellow and Punch Brothers bandleader, appears on three of those.
The title track carries its own curiosity. Its lyricists are Bridgers, Christian Lee Hutson and Damien Jurado, and it contains a sample of 'Notjustmoreidlechatter' by Paul Lansky — a piece of electronic music composed in the 1980s using speech-synthesis techniques, originally released on the influential 1986 album New Computer Music on the Wergo label. Lansky, a professor emeritus of music at Princeton, is one of the foundational figures in computer-generated composition.
What stands out across the credits is how many rooms Bridgers is working in at once. A single album touches indie folk, industrial guitar, bluegrass-adjacent mandolin, pedal steel, South Asian strings and early computer music — not as genre tourism but as a credits sheet populated by people who have spent careers in each of those spaces. Dead Oceans, the Bloomington, Indiana-based label that has housed Bridgers since her 2017 debut Stranger in the Alps, released the record.
