In some ways, Let England Shake, PJ Harvey's eighth studio album to date, is her most ambitious work to come over her nearly 20 year career. At the same time, it's questionably the most straight-forward and pop oriented recording that she's ever released. Leaving behind the piano, and introspective songwriting, Let England Shake is largely a conceptual album that deals with pervading English political issues like war and nationalism. The other notable transition is Harvey's singing style. Droppi...
Said the Gramophone — PJ Harvey - "On Battleship Hill". From PJ Harvey's gorgeous, spectral Let England Shake, an album that is deeply weird, pretty & eerie, new. Songs of thorn and death, dis... more info
Scotsman.com — Restless chanteuse PJ Harvey reinvents both sound and subject once more with a superlative suite of songs addressing war and imperialism more info
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Impose Magazine — In some ways, Let England Shake, PJ Harvey's eighth studio album to date, is her most ambitious work to come over her nearly 20 year career. At the same time, it's questi... more info