Good for Liz Phair: She’s weathered the shoulda-known-better critical carping and shoulda-sold-better sales of her supposed “sell out,” 2003’s Liz Phair, and come back with another brazenly varied set. Sustaining the (true? faux?) autobiographical details in her conversational lyrics for five albums without lapsing into repetition or narcissism is a real achievement (Loudon Wainwright III is her only competition). “Got My Own Thing” is typical of the complex notions in this pop/rock/ballad/rave-up song cycle: She’s falling for a guy she knows could either prove a keeper or a dawg, and either way she gets off on the thrill. Refusing to be hemmed in by her age (heading toward 40, the fuck-around girl of Exile in Guyville has become an adult both more hardheadedly realistic and genuinely erotic), she’s fast approaching Underrated Treasure status.

DOWNLOAD: “Why I Lie,” “Can’t Get out of What I’m Into,” “Got My Own Thing”