Here’s Phoebe Bridgers covering Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’ for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge

Phoebe Bridgers covered Nirvana’s classic track ‘Lithium’ on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, which you can watch below.

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The singer performed a haunting acoustic rendition of the song, from the grunge icons’ 1991 album ‘Nevermind’, on the Wednesday August 19 edition of the long-running music show.

She also treated fans to performances of ‘Lost Boys’, the lead single from her new album ‘Lost Weekend’, as well as the track ‘Bobby’.

You can listen to the whole episode here, or hear audio from the performance of ‘Lithium’ below.

NME gave the album five stars in its review, describing it as “a staggering, strange and stirring opus”. “Bridgers’ ‘Lost Weekend’ is the opposite of emotional evasion: more a reckoning with herself and the romantic and familial love and loss that have shaped her story and storytelling,” wrote critic Erica Campbell.

Recently, Bridgers explained why ‘Lost Weekend’ took “forever” to make, coming six years after her last solo release.

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