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P.J. Harvey - White Chalk
| Musicomh | Good golly Ms. Polly. You sure like to bawl.
White Chalk, the eighth album by the only good thing to come out of Dorset not high in bad cholesterol, and the first since 2004's Uh Huh Her, is not a happy thing. In fact, if you were being totally accurate, you might say it was a bleak, weeping shell of a thing, dripping with the kind of sexual tension you usually only get when hooking yourself up to a Van der Graaf machine in nylon underpants....full text |
| | Pitchforkmedia | | If there's been a constant in Polly Jean Harvey's 15-year career it's that she seems uncomfortable in her own skin-- which may explain why she sheds it so often. Harvey has a penchant for self-correction, to an almost compulsive degree: After To Bring You My Love made her a marquee act, Harvey released the dark, more atmospheric Is This Desire? When her 2000 album Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea accidentally captured the tenor of the times (its songs had an eerily prescient relationship to post-9/11 paranoia), Harvey responded with the stripped-down and studiously raw Uh Huh Her. ...full text |
| | Blogcritics | | Say what you will about Polly Jean Harvey, the enchanting singer-songwriter definitely keeps you on your toes. Expect nothing different with her scheduled Oct. 2nd (in the U.S.)/Sept 24 (in the U.K.) release, White Chalk on Island records....full text |
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