NME cover star branches out from the downbeat alt-folk of her 2018 debut album, exploring millennial dread with a broader sonic palettePhoebe Bridgers has previously said that Joan Didion – the acclaimed author who skewers a particularly chaotic strain of boredom sun-stained by California glare – was on her mind as she wrote ‘Punisher’. And like Didion, Bridgers captures the everyday figments of life with a bleak smirk.