It is her first studio album in close to eleven years since 2010's Funstyle and was preceded by five singles: "Good Side",[2] "Hey Lou",[3] "Spanish Doors",[4] "In There",[5] and "The Game".

[15] The third track on the album is "Hey Lou", which contains orchestral strings,[15] punchy drums and guitars,[18] and lyrically built on crisp couplets.

[1] The sixth track is "Sheridan Road", a "vulnerable acoustic confession"[17] with meandering guitar lines[20] where Phair evokes her hometown of Chicago.

[19] Track nine, the album's longest, is "Soul Sucker", which contains an "electric piano groove",[17] and a nod to "Remember Me" by Blue Boy in its chorus.

[16] "Lonely Street", the tenth track, is a stripped-down song where Phair adopts the point of view of a lover with lyrics such as "I've gotta run/I've been missing you, girl, like the sun".

[18] The eleventh track is "Dosage", a laidback alt-pop[19] ballad, laid on top of cello and sparse beats,[17] where Phair offers "life advice from the perspective of a recovering bad-decision junkie who's still finding her own middle path".

[27] Writing for The Guardian, Phil Mongredien called Soberish unforgivably mediocre, saying that "for the most part the coffee-table pop on offer here is remarkable only for being so forgettable".