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Liz Phair can crow over latest album
October 4, 2005
It's been Liz Phair's misfortune that, since her recent for-profit sonic makeover, she has been lumped in with the likes of Sheryl Crow.
Other than being female singer-songwriters who made their proper debuts in 1993, the two would seem to have little in common: Miss Phair the provocative feminist vulgarian who flipped the bird at classic rock's male titans, Miss Crow the conciliatory flatterer to same.
However, after 2003's "Liz Phair," the gap between Miss Phair and Miss Crow tightened a tad. Suddenly, it wasn't so hard to imagine the Top-40 Phair ditty "Why Can't I?" on a Crow album such as "C'mon, C'mon."
Miss Phair's latest, "Somebody's Miracle," out today, won't do much to disassociate her from Miss Crow (the raw indie-rocker of "Exile in Guyville" days is gone forever), but it still makes for a neat study in contrasts. Put simply, Miss Phair is a better songwriter than Miss Crow, who released "Wildflower," her fifth LP, last week.
She has more to say -- and says it more distinctively -- than the increasingly uninspired Miss Crow.
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