Liz Phair, Exile In Guyville
Liz PhairEXILE IN
GUYVILLE.
Exile in Guyville takes the scale of a double album and fills it with dry guitars, direct vocals and songs that turn the Chicago indie-rock world into both subject matter and target.
Album artwork shown for commentary and historical reference. Image source: Cover Art Archive / MusicBrainz.
SEVEN THINGS
WORTH KNOWING.
Recording stories, personnel, physical details and numbers worth keeping with the record.
Exile in Guyville was released on June 22, 1993 and contains 18 tracks.
Liz Phair and Brad Wood produced the album.
Brad Wood also engineered the sessions and played bass, drums, percussion and other instruments across the record.
Casey Rice is credited as assistant engineer and contributes additional instrumentation and vocals on selected tracks.
The album includes "Never Said," "6'1\"" and "Stratford-on-Guy."
Phair wrote and arranged the material, with the production built around her guitar and vocals rather than a fixed full-band lineup.
The album was conceived in conversation with the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., using its structure as a loose point of response.
WHY THIS
ALBUM MATTERS.
Exile in Guyville turns limitations into identity, using spare recording, long-form sequencing and unusually direct writing to make an 18-song album feel intensely personal rather than oversized.
THE
NUMBERS.
TRACKS
The original album contains eighteen songs.
CORE PRODUCERS
Phair and Brad Wood produced the record together.
RELEASE
The album arrived in June 1993.
THE
PHYSICAL OBJECT.
The stark black-and-white cover image and handwritten title match the album's homemade, confrontational character without trying to make the package look polished.
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