Liz Phair / Girly-Sound To Guyville / The 25th anniversary box set
Matador Records will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Liz Phair‘s debut album Exile in Guyville with Girly-Sound To Guyville, an extensive limited edition seven-LP vinyl box set and triple-CD package.
In the beginning (1991), the American singer-songwriter and guitarist recorded under the ‘Girly-Sound’ moniker and ultimately created three tapes of songs recorded on her own four-track recorder. Although these were never actually released, they did get passed around, copied and distributed thanks to word-of-mouth, and a small selection of the songs impressed Matador Records enough to sign the American singer-songwriter.
One of the big attractions of this forthcoming box set are these early songs. It contains ‘official restored audio’ of all three self-recorded cassettes. This content spans the first five records in the vinyl box – two doubles and a single LP.
And as you would expect, the set also contains the Exile in Guyville album, remastered (by Emily Lazar). This is a double LP and takes the vinyl record count to seven.
Girly-Sound To Guyville also includes a book, which contains new notes, photos and essays by Liz Phair and journalist Ann Powers.
The three-CD edition of the set is much cheaper, although the book in the vinyl version contains more pages of unpublished photos, unseen artwork, and ephemera.
The remastered Exile to Guyville is also available separately, on 2LP vinyl or CD. On the latter format, the price differential is negligible, and you may as well spend a little more and go for the full box set with the Girly-Sound content. That’s not the case with vinyl however, with UK fans required to spent more than £55 for the seven-LP set (although it is actually still reasonable value for a seven-record set).
Girly-Sound To Guyville: The 25th Anniversary Box Set will be released on 4 May 2018.
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YO YO BUDDY YUP YUP WORD TO YA MUTHA – DOUBLE LP GIRLY-SOUND 1
White Babies
Shane
6 Dick Pimp
Divorce Song
Go West
Don’t Holdyrbreath
Johnny Sunshine
Miss Lucy
Elvis Song
Dead Shark
One Less Thing
Money
In Love w/Yself
GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! DOUBLE LP GIRLY-SOUND 2
Hello Sailor
Wild-Thing
Fuck And Run
Easy Target
Soap Star Joe
Ant In Alaska
GIRLSGIRLSGIRLS
Polyester Bride
Thrax
Miss Mary Mack
Clean
Love Song
Valentine
SOOTY – SINGLE LP GIRLY-SOUND 3
Gigolo
Flower
Batmobile
Slave
Open Season
Whip Smart
Suckerfish
California
South Dakota
Bomb
Easy
Chopsticks
EXILE IN GUYVILLE DOUBLE LP
6’1”
Help Me, Mary
Glory
Dance Of The Seven Veils
Never Said
Soap Star Joe
Explain It To Me
Canary
Mesmerizing
Fuck And Run
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Divorce Song
Shatter
Flower
Johnny Sunshine
Gunshy
Stratford-On-Guy
Strange Loop?
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