To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey

Artist: PJ Harvey Album: To Bring You My Love (Island Records) Released: 1995 PJ Harvey is, and probably always will be, something of a maverick within the field of predictable dross that is known as “alternative” these days. There is something fairly disturbing about the monotony and lack of identity of a whole new generation of (predominantly American) guitar based acts. In many ways these wilderness years have only served to underline just ...
...her early career. The key to understanding this journey is the album which bridges the gap between her early primal work and her latter day, more restrained output; namely 1995’s “To Bring You My Love.” “To Bring You My Love” is by no means an easy record. It demands several listens before its suggestive undertones and raw hooks suck you in. The title track, which opens proceedings, is very much a foretaste of what Harvey has in store for the listener ...

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I'm treating you to another PJ Harvey, aren't you lucky? This time it's a much more exquisite peice of art, long gone is the rawness of Polly's thundering guitar pounding away, long gone are the harsh brutal lyrics...instead we find: style, blues, werid claustrophobic noises, extreme whispering mixed in with Polly's dark, deep and twisted vocals . With a new imagine as a Gothic Vamp, Polly surprises us yet again with the unexpected lying within her ...
...proof you need to see what an amazing artist this girl is...damnit. TO BRING YOU MY LOVE Starts with a faint, distinctive raw guitar strum which gets louder while a organ and a soft drum beat come in. A few seconds later in comes PJ's deep, dark, yet stunning vocal, mixed with purity and such clearness. The chours is simply "To Bring You My Love" which we hear PJ linger on to those very words in a loudish voice, covered by a colliding guitar which ...

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...cursed god above, forsaken heaven to bring you my love' >>Meet ze monsta - 'What a monster, what a night, what a lover, what a fight' >>Working For The Man* - 'God of pistol, god of steel, god is here behind my wheel' >>C'mon Billy* - 'C'mon Billy, come to me, you know I love you endlessly' >>Teclo* - 'I learned to beg, I learned to Pray' 'Let me ride on his grace for a while' >>Long Snake Moan - 'You wanna hear me cry my moan?' >>Down By The ...
...number' >>Send His Love To Me* - 'Left alone in desert, this house becomes a hell, this love becomes a tether, this room becomes a cell' >>The Dancer - 'He came dressed in black with a cross bearing my name, he came bathed in light and splendour and glory' *Reccommended! PJ Harvey started off as a trio until Polly Jean decided to work with other artists just before this album was released, like Nick Cave and Tricky. She's from Yeovil and if you ...

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TO BRING YOU MY LOVE – PJ HARVEY Yes folks, welcome back to PJ Harvey world! Muhahaha. If you haven’t got sick of me writing about PJ, fear not, there are only 2 more albums I plan to write about: p. To Bring You My Love is PJ Harvey’s best selling album to date, even Spin and Rolling Stone were so impressed with it they gave her the award for the best album of 1995. Even the single Down BY The Water awarded her with extra new ...
...need for someone or something to comfort her. Also she took a complete change of image too, wearing heaps off make up, wigs and sexy clothes (C’mon Billy video, whoa!) she completely transferred herself into something people didn’t recognise no-more, later on though she admitted that she didn’t like the way she looked and she felt she had to wear a ‘mask’. To date this is the best vocal you’ll ever hear, PJ’s ...

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To Bring You My Love is probably one of my most played albums since I first got it as a teenager! I really cant rate this album highly enough and the reason for this one being held in higher esteem than all her previous albums is simply that this album has a new found freedom the others dont seem to have. Polly J Harvey split from Robert Ellis and Stephen Vaughn, which gave her the freedom to experiment and deviate from the old bluesy punk that dominated ...
...albums to this were very good and definitely a lot better than most of the bands around at that time, they seemed to focus too much on the harsh brutallity that punk is famed for (which is all good and well) but 'To Bring You My Love' gives a more complex theatrical variety of emotions to deal with. It is said that each song represents a grand gesture and after hearing this I think I can really see that in each song of the album. Lyrically the album ...

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