Phair started off with a collection of demos under the moniker 'Girly Sounds'. After asking acquaintances who the 'coolest indie label' in town was, she approached the co-president of Matador Records. As luck would have it, he had just been reading a review of her demo and asked her to send in a tape. The tapes met with a good deal of enthusiasm and Phair was signed up.
The music is largely stripped down guitar and vocal. It's melodic alt-rock with a little rawness to it, though this is interrupted somewhat by the almost perfect pop-rock song "Never Said" and the dreamy piano of "Canary" with Phair's slightly snarling vocals over the top.
She doesn't tread lightly lyrically, with songs such as "Divorce" and "Fuck and run" or "dance of the seven veils" in which she states "I'm a real c*nt in spring".
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