Stranger in the Alps explained

Stranger in the Alps
Type:album
Artist:Phoebe Bridgers
Cover:Phoebe Bridgers – Stranger in the Alps.png
Released:September 22, 2017
Studio:Zeitgeist, Los Angeles, California
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Length:44:15
Label:Dead Oceans
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Stranger in the Alps is the debut studio album by American musician Phoebe Bridgers, released on September 22, 2017 by Dead Oceans.

Background and recording

Stranger in the Alps was produced by Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska.[2] Bridgers recorded the album in between tours over 2016 at Berg's studio in Brentwood, Los Angeles.[3] The album's title is a reference to the edited-for-TV version of the film The Big Lebowski, which changed Walter Sobchak's (John Goodman) line "Do you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?" to "Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?"[4] Bridgers opted to use the phrase because she found it to be "kind of poetic on accident".[5] [6]

Bridgers signed a recording contract with Dead Oceans in June 2017,[7] and the album was scheduled for release on September 22.[8] The album received a limited edition 5th anniversary galaxy colored vinyl pressing on September 22, 2022.[9]

Critical reception

Stranger in the Alps received acclaim from critics; review aggregator Metacritic gave the album a weighted average score of 82/100 based on 16 critic reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".

Josh Modell of The A.V. Club gave the album a perfect score, saying, "Stranger in the Alps alchemizes sorrow into redemptive beauty. It's never about wallowing, but about slowly moving through it. That difference, played out over some incredible, wise-beyond-her-years songwriting, makes it one of the best albums of the year." Writing for Pitchfork, Sam Sodomsky said that the album is "a collection of songs about intimacy, documenting how our relationships affect the way we view ourselves and interact with others... Bridgers' voice has a breezy, conversational flutter [that] sounds best when she double-tracks it in layers of light falsetto", rating the album 7.0/10.

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[10] Musicians

Production

Artwork

Charts

Chart (2017–2022)! scope="col"
Peak
position
UK Independent Albums (OCC)[11] 23

Notes and References

  1. Web site: September 22, 2017 . Stranger in the Alps – Phoebe Bridgers . September 22, 2017 . AllMusic.
  2. Web site: Trefor . Cai . The making of Stranger In The Alps: Phoebe Bridgers interviewed . . December 27, 2021 . August 9, 2018.
  3. Web site: Phoebe Bridgers: Stranger In The Alps . . December 27, 2021 . September 22, 2017.
  4. Web site: Phoebe Bridgers on the Places That Inspired Her Tender Indie Rock. Cosores. Philip. September 25, 2017. Bandcamp. Bandcamp Daily. February 14, 2019.
  5. Web site: Meredith . Kyle . Phoebe Bridgers on poetry, directness, and The Big Lebowski . October 24, 2017 . . March 16, 2023.
  6. Bridgers . Phoebe . Phoebe Bridgers . Kyle Meredith . Kyle Meredith with... Phoebe Bridgers . October 26, 2017 . . 0:46 . March 16, 2023.
  7. Web site: Sacher . Andrew . Phoebe Bridgers signs to Dead Oceans for debut LP, touring with Conor Oberst . . December 27, 2021 . June 6, 2017.
  8. Web site: Phoebe Bridgers announces debut album, 'Stranger in the Alps' . . December 27, 2021 . July 18, 2017.
  9. Web site: Stranger in the Alps (5th Anniversary Edition) - Phoebe Bridgers . Secretly Store . 30 November 2022.
  10. Stranger in the Alps . Bridgers, Phoebe . 2017 . Dead Oceans . Liner notes . DOC142.
  11. Web site: Official Independent Albums Chart Top 50 - 29 September 2017. . April 15, 2022.

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