PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project review – rock reportage

(Island)The 2015 winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Belarus-based writer Svetlana Alexievich interviews ordinary people about their experiences, unveiling the harrowing human underbelly to recent Russian history: the Soviet war in Afghanistan; the Chernobyl disaster.The Hope Six Demolition Project, PJ Harvey’s latest album, is best understood as a kindred sort of reportage, one delivered via guitar, saxophone and gospel choir. That’s not to say it hasn’t got some tunes. Near the Mem...

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