The first fruits of the sessions, Good Side, was shared across streaming platforms.
Listening to the album I hear a distillation of a career 30 years finally blended with the lo-if indie sensibility of those early Matador releases and the pop sprinkles of the major/Capitol years.Īlthough untitled at the time, Soberish was first hinted at back in 2019. I connected again – in a much more healthy way – to the artist I was searching for at that point.” What I wanted to achieve, what my style of working was. Girly-Sound brought me back to that early part of my career and who I’d been then. Soberish sees Phair reuniting with Engineer/Producer Brad Wood who’d previously collaborated with her on her debut Exit In Guyville (1993) and Whip-Smart (1994). Liz explains “listening to Guyville again, and immersing myself in my Girly-Sound demos, and talking with everyone from that era made me want to work with Brad again. “What I was longing for back in the early part of my career had happened! Everywhere you looked, on social media, there were women making their own music, fronting bands, it was their vision, they weren’t just women in a band, they weren’t just songwriters, they were the entire authors of the vision, head to toe. “Probably the most pivotal in bringing me back was seeing that this world that I’d always dreamed of had actually come to be,” she says. She’s also found time to write the book, Horror Stories. As well as focusing for a long period on being a single mother, she was composing music for television and film toured with Smashing Pumpkins and also solo in support of the 25th Anniversary re-issue of her debut. Although she’s not released anything new for a while, Liz has been busy. The landscape is very different in 2021, and this album has been welcomed with open arms. These songs lost me my management, my record deal and a lot of nights sleep”.
Liz’s herself said, “you were never supposed to hear these songs.
Although it was a challenging listen, after the polished, big-budget Liz Phair (2003) and Somebody’s Miracle (2005), to me it always sounded like she was cutting loose, having fun and sticking two fingers up to the haters. Soberish arrives 11 years on from her last album, the almost universally dismissed Funstyle in 2010. Liz Phair releases her 7th studio album, Soberish on June 4th, her first collection of new, original music in a decade.
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