P.J. Harvey
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P.J. Harvey
How can someone so unpredictable behave so predictably? Every time PJ Harvey releases something sophisticated and clean like 2000’s Mercury Music Prize tipped Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, it just about guarantees a contradictory follow-up album is around the bend. Her ambitious 1992 debut, Dry, inspired the bitter death rattle of Rid of Me. Her third offering, 1995’s elegant To Bring You My Love, gave way to the stormy Is This Desire?. Harvey’s sixth solo album, Uh Huh Her, doesn’t disappoint. It’s a nasty…
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
P.J. Harvey
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea—the sixth album from the most incendiary female British performer to emerge in the 1990s—is as powerful a record as any Polly Jean Harvey has made. Masterfully striking a balance between her blues-folk roots, avant-leanings, and soaring pop sensibility, it serves as a summary of Harvey’s prior achievements. The abrasive, jagged guitars hark back to her fiery 1992 debut album, Dry, on the ballistic yet anthemic opener, “Big Exit,” while the dreamy, opulent closer, “We Float,” demonstrates her maturity as a…
