Loved for the lo-fi simplicity of her mid-90s output and despised for the sad attempts at commercial success of her glossy '00s bombs, Liz Phair tells Billboard that she's returning to form following the 15th anniversary reissue of her debut album, Exile in Guyville. "This I can tell you: all my sloppiness is in there," she tells Billboard of her ATO debut, due this fall. "I fought all the way through, and I'm not letting anyone take it to a perfected style.
"It's not going to be '[Exile in] Guyville' again, but I'm using all my tools," she continues. "I keep pulling it out of producers' hands, before they can do anything."
Phair concedes that so far she's confident in about "half of it," but will be busy with the album all through August. The best way I can describe it is 'natural,'" she says. "It has mistakes in it. It has layered background vocals of mine that just make an overall slop, but it's perfect slop."
