{"id":572112,"date":"2025-08-18T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/?p=572112"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T00:55:21","slug":"love-letter-to-a-record-joan-the-giants-on-phoebe-bridgers-stranger-in-the-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/love-letter-to-a-record-joan-the-giants-on-phoebe-bridgers-stranger-in-the-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Letter To A Record: Joan &amp; The Giants On Phoebe Bridgers&#8217; &#8216;Stranger In The Alps&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Music Feeds\u2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/love-letter-to-a-record\/\">Love Letter To A Record<\/a>\u00a0series asks artists to reflect on their relationship with the music they love and share stories about how it has influenced their lives. Here,\u00a0Grace Newton-Wordsworth \u2013 the lead singer of Perth pop band <a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/joan-&amp;-the-giants\">Joan &amp; The Giants<\/a> \u2013 has reflected on the impact of <\/em>Stranger In The Alps<em>, the 2017 debut album by American singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/phoebe-bridgers\">Phoebe Bridgers<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The letter arrives fresh from the band releasing their second EP, <\/em>The Five Stages Of Grief<em>. In a press statement, Newtown-Wordsworth described the six-track effort as &#8220;<em>an embodiment of grief, love and survival<\/em>&#8220;. &#8220;For a long time I felt like a butterfly trapped in a cocoon, not being able to see the light \u2014but that is changing, and I\u2019m starting to spread my wings and find peace, joy and freedom,&#8221; she said. This EP is a painful chapter transformed into music and now healing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stream <\/em>The Five Stages Of Grief <em>below, then Newtown-Wordsworth&#8217;s letter after that and all of Joan &amp; The Giants&#8217; upcoming tour dates at the bottom.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-joan-amp-the-giants-the-five-stages-of-grief\">Joan &amp; The Giants \u2013 <em>The Five Stages Of Grief<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Five Stages of Grief\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:16\/9;border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/11IfKHvNDw7a9BdUGeacao?si=KyOryQfXTTaqljO2_PYYfA&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be honest, I struggled for a while to write this love letter. I found it difficult to find one album that influenced the whole sound of our EP, as there\u2019s many different influences and artists we adore and gravitate toward. But, overall, <em>Stranger In The Alps<\/em> stands out to me as I reminisce on the last two years creating our EP <em>The Five Stages of Grief<\/em>. To me, this is a perfect record. It isn&#8217;t afraid to just be sad and play on deep emotion. It feels like Phoebe isn&#8217;t trying to prove anything; she simply writes songs that mean something to her, and the production goes hand-in-hand with her lyricism &#8211; a perfect symmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was nervous about releasing such a sad and raw EP, because people always say things to me like &#8220;when will you write something happy?&#8221; For me, music has always felt like therapy. It gets me through the hard times, so I decided this EP has to be honest \u2013 and, if I&#8217;m being honest, the last two years I really haven\u2019t been OK. It\u2019s been a heartbreaking time coping with this very internal, nuanced breakdown of a nine-year relationship with someone who was also our guitarist and co-writer \u2013 even after we parted ways romantically. Throughout writing these heartbreaking, deeply personal songs together, we listened to a lot of Phoebe&#8217;s music and she influenced us heavily as songwriters, lyricists and producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-phoebe-bridgers-motion-sickness\">Phoebe Bridgers \u2013 &#8216;Motion Sickness&#8217;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"--aspect-ratio:1.7777777777778;\" title=\"Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness (Official Video)\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9sfYpolGCu8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stranger In The Alps<\/em> is such a special album, and will always be in my top five of all-time favourites. Songs that really hit hard for me are &#8216;Motion Sickness&#8217;, &#8216;Funeral&#8217;, &#8216;Scott Street&#8217;, &#8216;Georgia&#8217;, Y&#8217;ou Missed My Heart&#8217; and &#8216;Smoke Signals&#8217;. Phoebe is such a brilliant writer; I love her ability to use metaphors and be so blatantly honest at the same time. For example, the lyrics on &#8216;Funeral&#8217; really tell the exact story of exactly what she\u2019s going through, whereas with a song like &#8216;Motion Sickness&#8217; you have to read into it a little more to find the meaning, which gives space to give it your own as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the production on this album; it really inspired songs from our EP like \u2018When You Were Mine\u2019 and \u2018All I Know\u2019 \u2013 especially with its guitar sounds and soundscaping. I love that Phoebe allows so much space in her music, which creates this gentle softness but also builds tension and power behind the bigger moments. I also like that you can listen to this album over and over again and always hear something new &#8211; there&#8217;s a lot of layers and sounds, and it always surprises me on every listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I was to write Phoebe a letter personally , I would simply say: Thank you. Thank you for changing the way I approach music. As a female artist, you\u2019ve helped me to go deeper and fall in love with production and lyricism. You\u2019ve changed my little musical life for the better, and made me unafraid to share all of my big feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-joan-amp-the-giants-2025-tour-dates\">Joan &amp; The Giants 2025 Tour Dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Saturday, September 18th \u2013 Hotel Esplanade, Melbourne VIC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Thursday, September 25th \u2013 Lulies Tavern, Melbourne VIC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, September 27th \u2013 Vic On The Park, Sydney NSW<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, September 28th \u2013 The Triffid Beer Garden, Brisbane QLD<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wednesday, December 3rd \u2013 Metro City, Perth WA*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday, December 5th \u2013 Eaton Hills Hotel, Brisbane QLD*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, December 6th and Wednesday, December 10th \u2013 Enmore Theatre, Sydney NSW*<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, December 7th and Tuesday, December 9th \u2013 Forum Theatre, Melbourne VIC*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>* \u2013 supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/feeds\/the-fray\">The Fray<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For more information and all ticketing links, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/joanandthegiants.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JoanAndTheGiants.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-further-reading\">Further Reading<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/love-letter-to-a-record-felivand-on-sades-love-deluxe\/\">Love Letter To A Record: Felivand On Sade\u2019s \u2018Love Deluxe\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/love-letter-to-a-record-merpire-on-the-moulin-rouge-soundtrack\/\">Love Letter To A Record: Merpire On The \u2018Moulin Rouge!\u2019 Soundtrack<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/musicfeeds.com.au\/features\/love-letter-to-a-record-djanaba-on-amaraaes-fountain-baby\/\">Love Letter To A Record: Djanaba On Amaraae\u2019s \u2018Fountain Baby\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve changed my little musical life for the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2451,"featured_media":572113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xe_is_sponsored":false,"xe_sponsored_img":0,"xe_sponsored_url":"","xe_sponsored_start_date":"","xe_exclude":false,"xe_exclude_from_yahoo":"","created_by_alias":"Grace Newton-Wordsworth","just_watch_slug":"","just_watch_year":"","just_watch_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1173679],"tags":[1173675,1173681,1204642,1193937,1199009],"class_list":["post-572112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-featured","tag-features","tag-joan-the-giants","tag-love-letter-to-a-record","tag-phoebe-bridgers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.5 (Yoast SEO v27.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Love Letter To A Record: Joan &amp; 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