This week's new live music

PJ Harvey, LondonThough at times she's had a strangely mid-Atlantic kind of persona (part queen of the Delta blues, part farmer's wife), recently Polly Harvey has focused her attention closer to home. Her 2007 album White Chalk found her haunting British downlands, while her new one explores the idea of England. As much as the excellent Let England Shake is a heavily wooded study of the mist-filled hollows of British topography, her rural idyll is juxtaposed with powerful images of foreign confl...

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