PJ Harvey makes our album of 2011

England did indeed shake this year to the sound of riots, protests and distant wars. No wonder, then, that PJ Harvey's raw yet meticulously researched record hit a nerveDepicting war has always been an overwhelmingly male concern, even though it tears up lives indiscriminately. Last spring, not too long after the release of Let England Shake, an exhibition called Women War Artists opened at London's Imperial War Museum. Only a few pieces came within smelling distance of the grotesqueness of conf...

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