Liz Phair Details New Album Soberish, Shares New Song: Listen

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Liz Phair has finished her long-awaited next album SoberThe LP arrives on June 4 via Chrysalis. Today (April 14) Phair shared the newest single from the record entitled “Spanish Doors”. Hear it below and scroll down to find Sober‘s track listing and album art.

“Spanish Doors” is “about breaking a beautiful life, when everything you counted on is suddenly thrown for the taking,” as Phair put it in a press release. She added:

I was inspired by a friend who was going through a divorce, but the actions in the lyrics are my own. I refer to hiding in the bathroom when everyone around you is having a good time but your life just fell apart. You look at yourself in the mirror and wonder who you are now, shadows of doubt creep into your eyes. Just moments ago you were a very confident person and now you wonder how you will ever get the magic back.

Sober is Phair’s first album of new material in 11 years, after 2010 FunstyleThe new LP features previously shared songs “Good Side” and “Hey Lou.” The record was produced by Phair’s longtime collaborator Brad Wood, who also worked on it Exile in Guyville, Whip-Smart, and white chocolate space egg. “I found my inspiration for that Sober By immersing myself in an early era of my music development, I listened to Art Rock and New Wave music non-stop on my Walkman for years during my art school, ”said Phair. The English Beat, The Specials, Madness, REMs Automatic for the People, Yazoo, the Psychedelic Furs, Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Laurie Anderson and the Cars. The city came to life for me as a youngster, the bands in my headphones gave me the courage to explore. “

Phair added:

Sober can be about partying. It can be about self-deception. It can be about chasing that first flood of love or, in fact, any state of mind that allows you to escape reality for a while and live on a happier level. It is not self-destructive or out of control; it is as simple as the cycle of dreaming and waking up. That’s why I chose to symbolize Sober with an intersection, with a street sign. It is best described as a simple pivot of perspective. When you meet your ‘ish’ self again after a period of sobriety, there is a deep recognition and emotional relief that engulfs you and reminds you that there is more to life, more in reality and in your own soul than you feel. are aware. But if you grab too much of a good thing, or starve yourself with too little, you lose that critical balance.

Sober:

01 Spanish doors
02 The game
03 Hey Lou
04 In there
05 Good side
06 Sheridan Side
07 Ba Ba Ba
08 Sober
09 Soul Sucker
Lonely Street 10
11 Dosage
12 Bad Kitty
13 Rain scene

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