Lost Weekend, her third solo album, contends with this. The sharp, intimate lyric-writing that has made Bridgers so beloved is ever-present on Lost Weekend, slicing like a knife through ambient arrangements of jet-black synth. The latter closes with a fade-out voicemail from Bridgers’ late father, whose passing in 2022 is deeply felt in the album’s whirlpool of love and loss. Lost Weekend moves slowly and deliberately, Bridgers’ low, breathy singing more even-keeled and self-assured than ever amid playful sonic experiments of noise, effects, and sneaky guest vocals. The standouts, like “Liberty Tree” and “Lost Boys,” bring some needed levity to this cloudier set.