“Something’s inside me/Unborn and unblessed — so, what might that be, Polly Jean Harvey? If you think she’s giving a secret like that away, you haven’t been listening to her long. On her smashingly creepy White Chalk, she takes to the piano, an instrument she’d never learned to play before. Yet it’s stronger and more […]”
“Polly Jean Harvey has never made the same album twice, and neither has she ever made an album as bleak as White Chalk, which finds her trading guitar for piano and haunting her own house.”