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Track Listings
| 1. Let England Shake |
| 2. The Last Living Rose |
| 3. The Glorious Land |
| 4. The Words That Maketh Murder |
| 5. All and Everyone |
| 6. On Battleship Hill |
| 7. England |
| 8. In The Dark Places |
| 9. Bitter Branches |
| 10. Hanging In The Wire |
| 11. Written on the Forehead |
| 12. The Colour of the Earth |
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Album Description
2011 album from the critically adored British singer/songwriter. Let England Shake was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abiding atmosphere and in particular, its words. If Harvey's past work might seem to draw of direct emotional experience, this album is rather different. Its songs centre on both her home country, and events further afield in which it has embroiled itself. The lyrics return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli. The album they make up is not a work of protest, nor of strait-laced social or political comment. It brims with the mystery and magnetism in which she excels. But her lyric-writing in particular has arrived at a new, breathtaking place, in which the human aspects of history are pushed to the foreground. Put simply, not many people make records like this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
One for the ages...,
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This review is from: Let England Shake (Audio CD)
Let England Shake is a profoundly beautiful and haunting piece of work that finds the great PJ Harvey at the height of her powers. I believe they'll be listening to this album 100 years from now. I certainly haven't stopped listened to it constantly for the last year!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great album,
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This review is from: Let England Shake (Audio CD)
I must say this is a great album which I cannot stop listening for 2 weeks now. I really like the first couple of albums of PJ Harvey (Dry, Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love, Is This Desire?), but a couple of recent ones didn't touch me that much, although I like them too. This is one is again great. Maybe not so eccentric as the first albums, the sound is not so rough, definitely, much easier to listen to, but really nice and it's still has PJ Harvey features like the background "crying" sounds in "England". PJ likes to make each album different than the previous ones, and I am looking forward to her next creation.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hauntingly Beautiful,
This review is from: Let England Shake (Audio CD)
I for one am someone who has not really listened a great deal to PJ Harvey. There have been some tunes here and there, and I've respected her originality, but she never quite gripped me; that is to say, until I listened to this record. I can understand how long time fans would be a bit alienated by this sound, but I find this record to not only have very strong songwriting and production, but it also sees an artist not afraid to bear her true soul and to put every ounce of herself into each song.This is a downbeat record. The sound is dark, the lyrics are dark, the mood is dark. But at every stage, it is beautiful. There is too much music being created nowadays that is different for the sake of being different, music that lacks genuine soul. I don't think PJ Harvey ever created records like that, and she definitely hasn't done it again this time. The only difference is, she seemed less afraid to show herself here, and you can hear it with every song. At least I could. I can't get enough of this album. Listen for yourselves is the best advice I can give. Her voice here sounds like a mix of Souxie Sioux and Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, and that to me is a great thing.
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