The 2nd is "Dress" through "Shame". The 4th starts with "The Piano". I don't know if a whole life will be enough to discover all those gems Unfortunately, the link for P. J "Uh Huh Her" is broken Have a nice day, Phil. Search This Blog. PJ Harvey was one artist with whom I was not as familiar as maybe I "should have been", but Lordy be, I certainly am familiar now Thanks Jon S, an absolutely epic submission the whole series of posts. Uh Huh Her is a kind of dividing line in her career.

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Jun 28, PJ Harvey has a wealth of great b-sides and non-album tracks. I could be, and probably definitely am, a little biased. Though, more than any other. Reeling Four Track Version 2. Lying In The Sun 4.
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Over the past 27 years, Polly Jean Harvey has released nine albums, two collaborative releases with John Parish, a theatrical score, a compilation of Peel Sessions and a set of 4-Track Demos, but no best-of collection to date, despite having released something on the order of around 40 singles. She has, however, released a number of absolute masterpieces, and remains the only artist to win the Mercury Prize twice. Named for a carving of a woman stretching her vulva, as seen in England and Ireland, the song is a push-and-pull between sexual aggression and repulsion, rife with double-entendre and critical takes on sexual double standards. Salinger story, which she translates into a stunning quasi-industrial pop gem.
Post a Comment. The quiet ones are always the scariest. Polly Jean Harvey 's appearance on the cover of White Chalk -- all wild black hair and ghostly white dress -- could replace the dictionary definition of eerie, and the album itself plays like a good ghost story. It's haunted by British folk, steeped in Gothic romance and horror, and almost impossible to get out of your head, despite but really because of how unsettling it becomes. White Chalk is Harvey 's darkest album yet -- which, considering that she's sung about dismembering a lover and drowning her daughter, is saying something. It's also one of her most beautiful albums, inspired by the fragility and timelessness of chalk lines and her relative newness to the piano, which dominates White Chalk ; it gives "Before Departure" funereal heft and "Grow Grow Grow" a witchy sparkle befitting its incantations. Most striking of all, however, is Harvey 's voice: she sings most of White Chalk in a high, keening voice somewhere between a whisper and a whimper.