To Bring You My Love - PJ Harvey > Reviews

Advantages: A musically original and distinctive record
Disadvantages: maybe too much vocal distortion at times

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 ... Read review

Advantages: It's PJ Harvey, man!!!!!!
Disadvantages: Erm, I hate to admit...but it's perfect.

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 ... Read review

Advantages: see op
Disadvantages: None, I don't skip any of the tracks

...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 ... Read review

Advantages: great music, something for everyone!
Disadvantages: Perfection...there is none!

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 ... Read review