American singer-songwriter born April 17, 1967, in New Haven, Connecticut. Raised in Winnetka, Illinois. Distinguished by frank, sexually explicit lyrics and a lo-fi, double-tracked vocal aesthetic on her early work.
Released seven studio albums starting with Exile in Guyville (1993), a song-by-song response to the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. and one of the most acclaimed indie-rock debuts of the 1990s. Subsequent peaks: Whip-Smart (1994) and whitechocolatespaceegg (1998). The 2003 self-titled album marked a polarizing pivot toward mainstream pop-rock. Returned with Soberish (2021).