Punisher is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers, released on June 18, 2020, by Dead Oceans. It is the follow-up to her 2017 debut album, Stranger in the Alps. Punisher was recorded over a year and a half period at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles and reunited Bridgers with producers Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, who also engineered Stranger. Its recording process was collaborative, with its liner notes crediting multiple musicians, including Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, Christian Lee Hutson, Jim Keltner, Blake Mills, and Conor Oberst. Bridgers drew inspiration from the work of Joan Didion, the podcast My Favorite Murder, and the novel The Last Policeman, as well as the death of her dog Max. The title track is an homage to Elliott Smith and reflects on Bridgers's fandom of his work. Punisher is an indie rock, emo-folk, and indie folk album, featuring elements of indie pop and bluegrass on individual songs. Bridgers released five singles – "Garden Song", "Kyoto", "ICU", "I Know the End" and "Savior Complex" – in support of the album. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punishe...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)