"Welcome Back to Milk scans as an overhaul of its protagonist's romantic history, a poised reassessment of domestic situations that seemed okay at the time, but maybe weren't the best, after all. Wherever her gaze turns, Houghton's conviction is lethal. On "Mr. Hyde", she shreds a domineering narcissist to pieces; on "Four in the Morning", she shreds herself to pieces; on "Black Flag", she simply shreds. This all serves a winning mission statement: Radically reinterpret your past, and your present will look after itself".