Six years after she leveled up significantly with her sophomore album, Punisher, and three years past boygenius’s The Record and its sensation status, Phoebe Bridgers is finally back with new solo music. She’s the last of the boys to issue a proper follow-up, and it’s hard to deny that the pressure was most pronounced on her. Bridgers needed to get it right. Lo and behold, she has.

“Lost Boys” is unmistakably the handiwork of Bridgers and yet it is a solid step forward. There are echoes of her previous album. They’re there in the gentle melody that expands its scope as the song the goes on and the delivery of intricately forlorn lyrics (“You told me you wish you were dead/ But I don’t believe that/ I still wonder how you’re sleeping/ I don’t feel bad, but I’m sorry”) in a tone that’s somehow deadpan and lilting at the same time. It’s not merely Punisher II, though, no matter how many of her fans would have eagerly welcomed that. The track feels fuller, a little tangled, and firmly assured. It has a quiet magnificence that’s new even as it’s a reasonable extension of what she’s done before.

Lost Weekend, the new album from Phoebe Bridgers, is scheduled for release in August.