Review: PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey 'White Chalk': Aidin Vaziri | Polly Jean Harvey is best known for standing behind a guitar and shrieking things like, "Lick my legs. I'm on fire!" That's great, but in her eighth full-length studio album, the British songwriter is in a typically defiant mood: She has decided to sit down at a piano and prove she can do tender intimacy, too. Even though songs such as "Broken Harp" and "Silence" essentially sound like home demos recorded in the toilet, they make quite a strong case for Harvey's versatility. Like their accomplices on this 11-track, 30-minute set, they are lovely things, lifted by ghostly melodies and gruesome lyrics about love gone bad. The high-pitched voice Harvey uses throughout the disc, though, could make grown men weep - and not always for the right reasons.
posted by Aidin at Sunday, September 30, 2007
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