7.2
Avg Score
6
Opinions
#25,400
All Time
1
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“PJ Harvey turns a withering eye on social inequality on her wonderfully sharp new LP”
“On a fascinating and flawed new album, PJ Harvey yokes the siren-like catchiness of her last great America-influenced album, Stories From the City… to the swamp-tarnished filth of her classic first three records.”
“PJ Harvey continues with the art rock instrumentation and political themes from her last album, bringing them to variety of different locations.”
“The alt-rock hero rages against war and poverty on a radically inventive album”
““I took a plane to a foreign land, and said ‘I’ll write down what I find’” sings PJ Harvey on ‘The Orange Monkey’. In the videos that accompany her ninth album, drawing on trips to Washington DC, Kosovo and Afghanistan made with war photographer Seamus Murphy, you can see her doing just that: picking her way delicately among a ruined house in Kosovo, picking up abandoned photographs. The resulting”
