PJ Harvey's New Album Packs a Dramatic Punch, If You Listen Deep 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' is a world unto itself, full of long-forgotten words and unusual music, and that's what makes it great ALBUM REVIEW By Kory Grow
PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter whose mythically pitched, fanatically intense recordings and concerts set new standards for women in rock. Her notable albums included Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and Let England Shake, which both won
Released on indie label Too Pure off the back of a mailed-in demo and John Peel’s enthusiasm, “Dress” is a young woman’s desperate and naive attempt at seduction. Where riot grrrls in the Pacific Northwest were pouring acid on the grotesque mating charade, Harvey, fresh out of her ...
To Bring You My Love, an eclectic and starkly original album followed in 1995, and was accompanied by live performances that saw Harvey explore a more theatrical edge on stage. She received her second Mercury Music Prize nomination, two Grammy Award nominations, and 'Artist of the Year' award...
‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’ is a very tactile, human record, that is partly because just about everything on it is rooted in improvisation: spontaneous performances and ideas, recorded at the moment of their creation. Harvey has also released the album’s first single, ‘A Child’s ...
English singer-songwriter Pj Harvey stands to earn a small fortune on the sale of a sun-flooded, sunset-view condominium at the celebrity-stacked Sierra Towers building in West Hollywood California; The $2.975 million asking price is more than 4.5-times the $649,000 she paid for the high-fl...
PJ Harvey1993 10 By Judy Berman Genre: Rock Label: Island Reviewed: September 16, 2018 Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we revisit PJ Harvey’s searing and monumental album from 1993...
Seven years after the release of her last full-length solo album,The Hope Six Demolition Project,PJ Harveyhas announced her imminent return, sharing a number of studio clips via social media and her newsletter. “I have recently been in the studio with John Parish and Flood, my...
Polly Jean Harvey was major when she meant to shake the world, a life project she gave up on after releasing her finest album in 2000--much of it set, as must be mere coincidence, in New York City. Creating a suite of well-turned if unnecessarily understated antiwar songs, she's a ...
” But more than anything this is a highlight on the album for how furious a rock song it is. PJ Harvey had arguably never sounded so heavy until this point, and since, for that matter. On an album that mostly comprises guitar and organ, it’s driven by an absolutely thunderous ...