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

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Phoebe Bridgers covered Nirvana’s classic track ‘Lithium’ on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, which you can watch below. READ MORE: Phoebe Bridgers – ‘Lost Weekend’ review: indie’s poet laureate returns with a staggering, strange and stirring opus 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. The session appears to have been recorded before Bridgers became ill from appendicitis, which caused her to cancel a series of intimate UK gigs this week. “I got appendicitis for my birthday,” she wrote on Instagram stories, captioning a photo of herself in a hospital bed. “Everything in the UK this week will have to move but I’ll make it up to you!!!!” ‘Lost Weekend’ was released on August 14, and is the third solo studio album from the artist, who also performs as part of supergroup Boygenius. Among the album’s biggest supporters was Taylor...

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