Paste Magazine review - Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville reissue

June 20th, 2008 • albums and songs, music

My first longer, featured review for Paste is in mailboxes and available via the digital version of the magazine.

“Ant In Alaska” was one of the bonus tracks I wrote about, and it’s the most interesting of those unreleased bits. (courtesy of Stereogum). I tend to approach albums lyrics-first, a good approach when it comes to Guyville especially, and I love Phair’s sparse, but deadly seriousness here.

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