Brad isn’t the same Brad I’m not the same me. But it’s just never going to be that time, that place, that you ever again. “You can go home,” Phair says, firmly correcting us and Thomas Wolfe. Might they have recaptured some of that early magic, even if you can’t go home again?
She’s returning on June 4 with “Soberish,” which reunites her with Brad Wood, the producer of her beloved first two and a half records.
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She never stopped writing great songs after that landmark 1994 debut, but she has been in a kind of self-imposed exile from record-making in recent years, taking more than a decade since her last album to come back with a new one, while she was busy doing TV music work, writing a memoir (2018’s “Horror Stories”), touring and raising a son. Maybe that era never really ended, for a generation of young women and more than a few men for whom Phair’s “Exile in Guyville” felt like a paradigm-shifting, even life-changing exercise in musical frankness. But the group Garbage could just as well be a part of the conversation, seeing as they, Phair and Alanis Morissette will be touring together this fall, recalling a halcyon ’90s time when alt-rock felt like it was ruled by melodiously rich, lyrically uncompromising women who could knock your block off. While it might seem like she’s declaring an impending hard out, with Shirley Manson and Butch Vig perhaps set to swing through, she’s referencing actual Manhattan Beach trash collectors. “The garbage people are going to come by the house,” Liz Phair says suddenly over a Zoom call.
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