After giving Capitol Records her two worst albums, Liz Phair is giving her new label, ATO, her very best: a deluxe reissue of 1993’s Exile in Guyville. The reissue, set to be released June 24, will contain the original disc as well as four unreleased tracks (two songs from the hyper-bootlegged Girlysound demos as well as two Guyville leftovers) and a DVD entitled “Guyville Redux,” which features Phair interviewing fellow Chicago scenesters Steve Albini, Brad Wood, and John Cusack.
Though not quite the XX-chromosomed twin of Exile on Main Street that Phair often claimed it to be, Guyville’s brutally frank and witty approach to sex, love, sex and sex has set the dizzyingly high standard by which all of her subsequent work has been judged. Expect Phair’s first album of original material for ATO to be unfavorably compared to it this fall.
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