PJ Harvey in Paris, Valentine's Day 2011
I can’t get enough of PJ Harvey at the moment.
Her new album, Let England Shake, was released yesterday and is simply an amazing piece of work.
It takes as its theme England’s role in wars past and present, yet despite this subject matter these cannot be classified as straight protest songs. Instead they are a form of reportage as if she had already accepted the post of ‘official war song correspondent’ offered this week by the Imperial War Museum.
Polly Harvey lets the atrocity of human conflict speak for itself and is more of a lament for wasted lives than an exercise in finger pointing at warmongers. Continue reading
On P.J. Harvey’s debut single, she mocked the human mating rituals that force women to wear clothes that are hard to walk in and make them feel they are “spilling over like a heavy loaded fruit tree”. 
