Phoenix-based indie rocker Sydney Sprague has always worn her heart like armor—raw, witty, and unyieldingly honest. Her third album, Peak Experience (self-released, September 26, 2025), distills that ethos into eight tracks of stripped-back vulnerability, marking her first independent full-length after parting with Rude Records. It’s a hushed reckoning with anxiety, obsession, and the elusive highs of existence, born from home-studio sessions amid relentless touring and personal reinvention. If her prior works—2021’s apocalyptic maybe i will see you at the end of the world and 2023’s sardonic somebody in hell loves you—were defiant anthems, this is a quieter unraveling: tender odes to spiraling thoughts, where pop-punk edges soften into folk-tinged introspection.