Music Review

Exile in Guyville (1993)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Liz Phair; Genre: Rock

Phair's cagey alternative pop comes on as uncommonly intimate and ''feminine'' (like Polly Harvey's ''Happy and Bleeding'') but still leaves you aching at the door, a pun in your hand and a hook in your heart. The jangly/rumbly guitar on Exile in Guyville is crafted to sound capricious, while Phair's confidently off-kilter voice gets over like a poetry slam winner unsatisfied with her last verse. A

Originally posted Jun 04, 1993 Published in issue #173 Jun 04, 1993 Order article reprints

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