Rated ladies: Aldous Harding (left) and Neko Case
ESZTER+DAVID; CLARE SHILLAND; EMILY SHUR; SCOTT DUDELSON/GETTY IMAGES
With Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast at El Rey Theatre, LA, on March 4, 2017
“I ’M so inspired by how fully formed all these female artists are,” Phair says of the current wave. “They’re not just fronting a band. They’re not just showing up in the studio as the person who wrote the songs. Sometimes they’re recording the whole album, they’re designing the visual, they’re presenting themselves on stage in a theatrical manner playing multiple instruments.” So who are her favourites? “All you have to do is look at my Twitter,” she says. “Because I pick up like a new female artist almost every day. Just like, click, click, click.” She isn’t lying. Phair follows many contemporary female musicians, from Neko Case to Aldous Harding and Best Coast frontwoman Bethany Cosentino.