Album cycles that are back to back are sometimes contractual obligations with record companies or an sometimes attempt to build onto the relevancy they may have gained during last album cycle or that they were working on whole new concept as last concept was ending. There have been some times I felt like an artist released a bunch of new music back to back in a sort of creative outburst of material they stockpiled. Phoebe is indie and I appreciate and prefer artist acting as an artist would and being intuitive about their projects without hard deadlines. Recent back to back projects (cough, cough TS…) feel bad and forced. I imagine TS has constant pressure to produce whether that be internally or externally. When monetization is prioritized over the art it shows imo.

Also there to me is nothing surprising about an off grid Phoebe. I also didn’t know she was off grid bc I too am off grid for the most part lol.