For Her ‘SNL’ Debut, Phoebe Bridgers Goes Bigger Than Ever

For those who’ve been marinating in Punisher‘s wonderful gloom for the final eight months, it is no shock that Bridgers and her skeleton-suit-clad band opted to play the peppy single “Kyoto” and a barely abbreviated model of the album-closing “I Know the Finish,” which builds from a wistful whisper to full-on primal screams. But the latter efficiency went full-on guitar-smashing bonkers, with Bridgers closing the proceedings by whaling on her monitor with a guitar that appeared to carry up higher than she’d supposed it to. She took greater than a dozen whacks at it, and for some time no less than, the monitor appeared to take the most seen harm.