Faithfull knows it too, which is why she opens the latest comeback with "Sex with Strangers," an ode to anonymous doin' it written by and performed with Beck; "bored, you thought you'd try a little danger," she offers, and it's a compelling invite. So too is "I'm on Fire," on which she and Corgan shove a bed onto the dance floor, though, blessedly, the Great Pumpkin lets Ms. Faithfull write in the sheets by her lonesome. Though the Blur title track, all Britpop till ya drop and ya don't stop, bests any of Albarn's side projects -- time to quit monkeying around, dude -- it's Beck who brings out the best in Faithfull: "Like Being Born" might as well be titled "Like Being Born Again" (it recalls her 1960s halcyon heyday, when tears went by), and her cover of "Nobody's Fault" is haunting and harrowing and heartbreaking where his was, well, just haunting.