Meanwhile Brokaw gave several Girlysound tapes to the head of Matador Records, Gerard Cosley, leading to a contract. Phair's debut album, Exile in Guyville, was released in 1993 and received uniformly excellent reviews. The album attracted critical attention because it was ostensibly structured as a woman's response to the Rolling Stones' classic Exile on Main Street, although a comparison of the two albums shows that this claim was, at best, overstated. The critical success of Guyville meant Phair soon attracted naysayers in the indie rock scene, notably including Steve Albini, but her fanbase continued to grow.
The album established Phair's penchant for exploring sexually explicit lyrics such as in the song "Flower": "I want to be your blow job queen/...I'll fuck you and your minions too." Despite such provocative lyrics, her trademark low, vibrato-less voice gave many of her songs a slightly detached, almost deadpan character.
Phair's second album received much media attention and an advertising blitz. Whip-Smart debuted at #27 in 1994 and "Supernova", the first single, became a Top Ten modern rock hit. In spite of this, the album received mixed reviews and did not sell well. In 1995, Phair married Jim Staskauskas (whom she later divorced), a film editor who had worked on her videos, and then released Juvenilia, an EP that included Girlysound material. She worked on her third album for a long time, delayed by the birth of a child, James Nicholas Staskauskas, on December 21, 1996. whitechocolatespaceegg was finally released in 1998. In 2003, her self-titled fourth album was released. Initially, Phair worked on several album tracks with songwriter Michael Penn producing. When the album was released, however, most of the media attention was focused not on the Penn-produced music, but on several tracks produced by the glossy pop-rock team known as The Matrix. ...more
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