PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project review – potent, beautiful songs and minor lyrical missteps

A few unconvincing moments aside, Polly Harvey’s latest is a raucous and powerful set of highly memorable songsThe Hope Six Demolition Project is an album with quite a story attached. Preparations for the follow-up to 2011’s Mercury prize-winning Let England Shake involved Polly Harvey travelling to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the grimmer parts of Washington DC in the company of film-maker and photographer Seamus Murphy, the better to record the effects of war and poverty. The field trips have t...

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22:31 on April 13 2016

'The Hope Six Demolition Project' review: PJ Harvey's world-traveling observations set to music

Newsday — PJ Harvey's ninth studio album, "The Hope Six Demolition Project" (Vagrant), is a massive undertaking -- a chronicling of her four years of journeys to Afghanistan, Kosov... more info

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15:00 on April 14 2016