Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - P.J. Harvey
Bringing us up to date, something pivotal from the Naughties.In 2000 Polly Jean Harvey released this, her 5th Album and finally reached the critical acclaim she deserved. The album won the Mercury Prize in 2001.
The City referred to in the title Is New York, a city of "heroin and speed, of genocide and suicide, syphilis and greed" Somehow PJ manages to make this sound mysterious, cool and romantic.
All jangly guitars and dirty bass, Thursdays Critical Junction will feature Big Exit, The Whores Hustle And The Hustlers Whore, You Said Something, and her duet with Radioheads Thom Yorke, This Mess We're In. We may squeeze in We Float before the show kicks off.
Labels: 2000's
posted by Critical Junctions @ 10:27
2 Comments
2 Comments:
PJ who???...Well now I know who, thanks to Sarah. I thought they were excellent (even if one of the songs sounded like the Pretenders)
But the vocals reminded me of someone else too and I was scratching my head all day, then it came to me. She sounds a lot like Signe Toly Anderson out of Jefferson Airplane, but that's a compliment in itself. So top marks yet again!!!!
P.S: (just an aside, Tom Yorke could sing a duet with the Cookie Monster and make a song sound great lol)
EJ
I agree there is a Pretender thing going on for sure, but even before Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders there was Patti Smith, the mother of them all back in the Seventies. You might already know her, and she's on the schedule as a Critical Junction herself for her Album "Horses", I think we should feature a Pretenders album too at some stage....and we better squeeze in a Radiohead album too come to think of it....so many albums....so little time!
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