Edward Droste and Liz Phair

The Quote from Edward Droste, singer for Grizzly Bear: “In high school, I loved (Liz Phair’s) Exile in Guyville…People are always saying (they hear the influence of) Skip Spence. I didn’t grow up on that. I wasn’t that “cool” in high school. Exile in Guyville is one of my favorite albums of all time, even though I don’t even really listen to it anymore.”

The Source: Prefix Magazine, Jan. 2002

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New to Liz Phair? Start here: Droll female singer-songwriters who shock with explicit tales of sex and self destruction are a dime a dozen these days, but it was Liz Phair who perfected the lo-fi Nico-like delivery way back in 1993 and birthed a collection so empowering, poppy, perfect and pure that nobody has come close to replicating it (including Phair herself). On Help Me Mary, the second cut on Exile in Guyville, Phair ponders “…just how wild I would be.” Throughout the album she tells you just enough to tease and make you come back again and again. (Note: the reissued version of the album below has bonus tracks and a DVD that features interviews with John Cusack, Dave Matthews and Steve Albini)

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Exile in Guyville