PJ Harvey has brilliantly evoked a nation built on bloodshed

PJ Harvey has brilliantly evoked a nation built on bloodshed | Edward Vallance

PJ Harvey's prize-winning album skewers idyllic invocations of Englishness and exposes the brutal, violent realityMusical musings on the English nation have tended towards the cosily nostalgic. Think of the Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, with its evocation of an England of china teacups, cricket matches and picture-postcard hamlets; or more recently of Blur's Modern Life is Rubbish and Parklife, with their longing for cultural symbols that are untainted by American influence.PJ Harve...

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21:45 on September 8 2011

PJ Harvey has brilliantly evoked a nation built on bloodshed | Edward Vallance

Guardian Music — PJ Harvey's prize-winning album skewers idyllic invocations of Englishness and exposes the brutal, violent realityMusical musings on the English nation have tended toward... more info

15:30 on September 8 2011

Pj Harvey Throws Out Majority Of Songs

ContactMusic — PJ Harvey throws out 75 per cent of the songs she writes The Written on the Forehead singer - who became the first artist to win the Mercury prize for the second time ear... more info

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