PJ Harvey Tuesday #9: “The Last Living Rose”
In 2011, two decades after her debut, PJ Harvey released what might actually be her best album ever: Let England Shake. Recorded in a church in Dorset, LES takes as its subjects homeland and war.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #8: “Who the Fuck?”
“Who the Fuck?” is an old-school Polly Jean temper tantrum with an acerbic guitar riff choked through cheap amps. Plus cussing.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #7: “A Perfect Day Elise”
PJ Harvey’s fourth studio album includes not one but two songs based on J. D. Salinger stories.
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #6: “The Dancer”
If you’ve only heard one PJ Harvey song, it’s probably “Down by the Water” off her 1995 album To Bring You My Love. A runaway hit that broke the top 50 on UK and US music charts, it epitomized the unique aesthetic direction of third album, which Rolling Stone described as “a towering goth version […]
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #5: “This Mess We’re In”
Thom Yorke and PJ Harvey sit in New York and contemplate their doomed love and suffer, and it’s all terribly stylish and sexy. What really makes the song crackle, though, is the fact that neither one of them had sung this way about sex before—and haven’t really done so since.
...morePJ Harvey Tuesday #4: “When Under Ether”
By 2007, PJ Harvey had released six studio albums, which ran the gamut in style from explosive blues-punk to near-industrial electronica to soulful pop rock. To the surprise of all (and dismay of many), her seventh album, White Chalk, marked a dramatic departure from all that. Gone were the buzz-saw guitars and the androgynously low […]
...morePJ Harvey Tuesday #3: “Sheela-Na-Gig”
Let’s get right to it: What is a sheela-na-gig?
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #2: “Rid of Me”
“I very much wanted to write songs that shocked,” PJ Harvey recently told Spin about her early career. “All I wanted to do was shock with my artwork. When I wrote ‘Rid of Me,’ I shocked myself.”
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PJ Harvey Tuesday #1: “Henry Lee”
Now that Nick Cave Mondays have drawn to a close, the obvious next step is PJ Harvey Tuesdays.
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