Is This Desire - PJ Harvey > Reviews

Advantages: It's PJ Harvey, what else to you want? *sigh*
Disadvantages: Depressing in every sense of the word.

...I’m obsessed, aren’t you? Is This Desire? is PJ’s 6th album and it is a strange album indeed, considering I’ve heard nothing like this from the woman in question. This time she seems different, her voice has changed, she seems uneasy, depressed, lonely and desperate. The music that follows leaves us with this is incredibly intensed album, a depressed album and one of the darkest albums I’ve ever heard Polly record. ANGELENE A ... Read review

Advantages: the music is nice and mellow, makes it nice to listen to at night
Disadvantages: none what I can think off...it is PJ after all!

~ PJ Harvey – Is This Desire? ~ Is This Desire? is such a important album to me, it’s the very first album I ever purchased of Polly’s and if I hadn’t bought it then I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this. ITD? Is very very different in many ways to all of the other albums PJ has done. It’s an incredibly upsetting, unsettling, hard album to listen to. While writing this album Polly was going through a ‘bad’ ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly expressive.
Disadvantages: Tortured, difficult listening.

"Is This Desire" is an extremely short record. This is nothing other than a good thing, because if it was any longer, it might just fall into the category marked "entirely unlistenable". It's a painful record to listen to, tortured and tormented, telling the stories of lost souls. Industrial noises, heavy beats and singing which is nearly the wrong side of screaming make for uncomfortable listening. But this is an excellent album - file under "difficult ... Read review