SWEAT STAFF PICK: Liz's third full-length album is my personal favorite of hers. Chock full of clever lyrics and fun arrangements! I can sing most of these songs from memory. Listen to a new-to-motherhood songwriter stretching out her sound. -Daniel

"Whitechocolatespaceegg is a hell of an album. It’s the end of a three-album run that I’d put up against anything from anyone, at any point in alt-rock history. The talk of Phair as a careerist was all a total canard. The songs are as hard and pointed and eloquent and honest as anything else that was out there in 1998, and the production’s not exactly a whole lot cleaner. Phair wrote big and sticky hooks — “Polyester Bride” was the sort of thing that can and should conquer your brain for entire afternoons at a time — but she’d always been doing that. The album’s arrangements are cluttered and smart and eccentric, full of sharp little touches that you only notice when you’re paying close attention. The only real concessions to the sound of ’98 were a few squiggly synths here and there, and Phair was better at using those than most of her contemporaries were." -Tom Breihan, Stereogum