Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - "...She's a slacker poet of the first degree...and has once again written and `directed' a bunch of entertaining, affecting songs....This brainiac bad girl deserves a lot of credit for not being cowed by her classic debut..." Q Magazine (12/94, p.139) - 3 Stars - Good - "...resonates with EXILE IN GUYVILLE's brittle, lo-fi verve....The songs...lack GUYVILLE's snappy hooks, while her lyrical explicitness can't hold the shock-of-the-new it once did....That's what you get for making exhilarating first albums...", Ranked #6 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll., "...If anything's omnipresent on WHIP, it may be Phair's ability to deploy her rare pop talent with intuitive calculation...", 6-Good-"...Whip-Smart Is Just Too Cool for Words..."