~~~Still worth listening to 15 years on~~~
Today PJ Harvey's eighth album, 'White Chalk', is released and in anticipation of its arrival I have been listening to 'Dry', her first album, released in 1992. On its release, the album wowed the music press and was hailed as an astonishing debut ... Read review
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Dry - PJ Harvey
Dry is the cornerstone of the 1990's "women in rock" movement. To paraphrase what Lou Reed
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said about the Velvet Underground: Not many people bought the album, but those who did formed a band. The attraction is unmistakable: bluesy riffs played with pu...
Dry - PJ Harvey
Dry is the cornerstone of the 1990's "women in rock" movement. To paraphrase what Lou Reed
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said about the Velvet Underground: Not many people bought the album, but those who did formed a band. The attraction is unmistakable: bluesy riffs played with pu...
Dry -
Dryis the cornerstone of the 1990's "women in rock" movement. To paraphrase what Lou Reed
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said about the Velvet Underground: Not many people bought the album, but those who did formed a band. The attraction is unmistakable: bluesy riffs played with pun...
Dry -
Dryis the cornerstone of the 1990's "women in rock" movement. To paraphrase what Lou Reed
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said about the Velvet Underground: Not many people bought the album, but those who did formed a band. The attraction is unmistakable: bluesy riffs played with pun...
Advantages: serious, clever, poetic, daring, easy to listen to Disadvantages: it's a minor point - you have to whack the volume up otherwise it's quiet
...and grown with each album, Dry is still fresh, strong and well worth a listen.
~~~Other info~~~
Available on Amazon from £6.85. I'm sure you'd find it in most good music shops too.
P J Harvey - vocals, guitar, violin
Stephen Vaughan - Bass
Robert Ellis - Drums, vocals, harmonium
Record at the Icehouse, Yeovil
Engineered by Head
Produced by Head / Harvey/ Ellis ...
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Advantages: Raw, Talented, Good song-writing, Music...hell it's PJ Harvey! Disadvantages: May be uncomfortable and uneasy for some people.
...!" Christ, she really does shout that one out. Great song to listen to when you are feeling pissed off.
DRY
This song is about, well, erm, her lover leaving her dry. It starts off with a nice classical guitar tune, with the strings strenching here and there. PJ's voice comes in very serious indeed: "Wet sides from time to time, but mostly I'm just dry." Now, c'mon, who said that PJHarvey hasn't got a sense of humor, huh? I think the whole song is amusing as PJ sounds dead serious, she really does...great song.
Ok, I shall leave it at that. I don't think this album is suitable to everyone, you really must have an open-mind and a open ear to listen to the whole album, as some songs may hurt your ears (that's why I purposly sent some of these songs over to Difranco01). It is difficult at times, it will make you uncomfortable...
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Advantages: Beautiful songs, a real departure, melancholy Disadvantages: Not for rockers and pop fans
...~~~Introduction~~~
White Chalk is the 8th album from PJHarvey, released last year. Since her stunning and critically acclaimed debut, Dry, 14 years ago, she has continued to change, develop and challenge, morphing in her personal style as well as her musical style to keep things fresh, interesting and to keep us guessing.
I know all this, and yet I still approached her latest album with something nearing trepidation, for gone is the guitar, so much a part of her sound, gone is the rocky attitude, abandoned for an instrument she had never played before - the piano. Surely this was doomed to be a worthy experiment, a little embarrassing perhaps, but nothing more…
But once again Polly Jean surprised me, and surprised us all, going by the reviews I've read elsewhere. This album is a thing of ethereal, haunting beauty - a total...
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04.01.2008
