Liz Phair - XPNFEST Weekend, Manhattan Beach, CA, 7-26-2020

So far, I've only posted one Liz Phair album. I plan to continue moving forward through her career chronologically. But first, here's something relatively new, from July 2020.

What's Phair been up to doing the coronavirus pandemic? For a long time, there was no sign of any musical activity, She completely finished the recording of a new album, her first one in years, but its release has been postponed until 2021. She didn't do any home concerts at all that I could see, not even a single song.

Until this concert. She played a 22-minute set, just with her on acoustic guitar plus an extra guitarist. Most of the songs are originals from her earlier albums. However, she played "Good Side," a single release from last year that I think will be on her new album. She finished with "Soberish," a song she's never played in public before. It'll be the title cut of her new album. Both new songs sound quite good.

Because the show is so short, I've added two extra songs at the beginning. These actually come from very late 2019, before the pandemic. But you wouldn't know it wasn't from the same concert. They were recorded live for a radio station, with the exact same two guitar instrumentation.

I've also added an extra song at the end, from an even more recent single song home concert performance. It's a cover of the Tears for Fears hit "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." This has a full band backing, with the music sounding so much like the Tears for Fears version that it's a bit uncanny.

Even with the extra songs, this is still a short album, at 33 minutes. If she does one or two more short home concert performances, I'll add that to the end.

01 Divorce Song (Liz Phair)
02 Why Can't I (Liz Phair)
03 6'1 (Liz Phair)
04 talk (Liz Phair)
05 Mesmerizing (Liz Phair)
06 talk (Liz Phair)
07 Good Side (Liz Phair)
08 talk (Liz Phair)
09 Polyester Bride (Liz Phair)
10 talk (Liz Phair)
11 Explain It to Me (Liz Phair)
12 talk (Liz Phair)
13 Soberish (Liz Phair)
14 Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Liz Phair)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15262395/LizPh_2020_XPNFESTWeekndManhattnBeachCA__7-26-2020_atse.zip.html

I could have used a pretty decent screenshot from the main concert included here. But I prefer a screenshot I took from the radio station appearance that makes up the first two songs.