[Alternative Rock] PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey - White Chalk (2007)



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Year : 2007
Genre : Rock (хотя...)
FLAC, 174Mb

Track Listing:
01 - The Devil 02:58
02 - Dear Darkness 03:10
03 - Grow Grow Grow 03:23
04 - When Under Ether 02:26
05 - White Chalk 03:13
06 - Broken Harp 01:59
07 - Silence 03:11
08 - To Talk To You 04:01
09 - The Piano 02:37
10 - Before Departure 03:49
11 - The Mountain 03:11

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During the early-'90s alternative rock explosion, several female
singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few were as distinctive or as
widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of three albums,
Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential
songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion
with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a twisted theatricality. At the
outset of her career, she led the trio PJ Harvey, who delivered her
stark songs with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by
her 1992 debut, Dry. Following the noisy, uncompromising follow-up, Rid
of Me, the trio fell apart, and PJ Harvey became the sole property of
Polly Harvey. Her next record, 1995's To Bring You My Love, became her
mainstream critical breakthrough, confirming her status as one of the
cornerstone figures of '90s alternative rock.

Harvey was raised on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England, where she was
raised by her quarryman father and her mother, who was an artist. As a
child, she learned how to play guitar and saxophone, and when she was a
teenager, she played in a variety of bands as a sideman. In 1991, she
formed PJ Harvey with bassist Steve Vaughn and drummer Robert Ellis, and
the trio recorded its debut record for under 5,000 dollars. The band
signed with the British indie label Too Pure and released "Dress" that
fall. "Dress" became a indie rock sensation, as did its follow-up,
"Sheela-Na-Gig," with both singles receiving lavish praise in the U.K.
music press. Although Harvey was a reluctant interviewee, she cannily
used the press to her advantage, whether it was through her candid
interviews or startling, occasionally disturbingly sexy photo sessions,
which subverted traditional concepts of female sexuality.

PJ Harvey's debut, Dry, was released in spring 1992 to considerable
praise; it was distributed in America by Island Records. The trio
followed it with an extensive tour, culminating with an appearance at
that summer's Reading Festival. Shortly after the tour, Harvey moved to
London, where she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown due to the
extraordinary pressure and expectation surrounding her second album. The
group hired former Big Black frontman Steve Albini (Pixies, Breeders) as
the producer of their second album, Rid of Me. Albini imposed his
trademark noisy, guitar-heavy sound on the record, which mirrored its
harder-edged themes. Rid of Me was a major critical success and expanded
Harvey's cult greatly. She supported the album with a tour featuring
herself in a fake leopard-skin coat and a feather boa, signaling her
developing interest in theatricality. At the end of the year, Harvey
released 4-Track Demos, a collection of her original versions of the
songs on Rid of Me.

Following the Rid of Me tour, Ellis and Vaughn parted ways with Harvey,
and she recorded her third album as a solo artist, augmented by producer
Flood, bassist Mick Harvey, and guitarists John Parish and Joe Gore.
Harvey developed a richer, bluesier sound with the expanded band, and
the resulting record, To Bring You My Love, was hailed as a masterpiece
by many critics upon its February 1995 release. Thanks to considerable
press attention, as well as strong support from MTV and modern rock
radio for the single "Down by the Water," To Bring You My Love became a
moderate hit, entering the U.S. charts at number 40. Harvey spent all of
1995 touring the album, and spent the following year in relative
seclusion. During 1996 she was relatively quiet, only appearing twice on
record: once in a duet with Nick Cave on his Murder Ballads album ù the
pair were reportedly romantically involved ù and singing on John
Parish's Dance Hall at Louse Point. Is This Desire? followed in 1998.
Two years later, Harvey reunited with Ellis and Mick Harvey for Stories
From the City, Stories From the Sea, which returned to her earlier, more
aggressive style and was inspired by her six-month stay in New York City
in 1999.

The album won the 2001 Mercury Prize, making Harvey the first female
winner of that award. After extensive touring in support of the album,
Harvey split her time over the next two years working on new material
and collaborating with likeminded friends and contemporaries. Appearing
on Gordon Gano's Hitting the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover Magazine, and
John Parish's How Animals Move, Harvey's most prominent collaboration
was with the Queens of the Stone Age side project the Desert Sessions.
She performed on more than half of 2003's Desert Sessions, Vol. 9-10,
including the single Crawl Home. That summer, she also performed at the
V Festival, previewing tracks from her new album, which she said was
close to being finished. The album, Uh Huh Her, appeared in summer 2004,
coinciding with another string of tour dates, including British and
European festival appearances at Glastonbury, T in the Park, the
Montreux Jazz Festival, and Spain's La Primavera festival. Stateside,
Harvey was scheduled to join the revived Lollapalooza festival for
select dates, joining Morrissey and Sonic Youth on the main stage. Upon
the cancellation of that festival, however, she mounted a solo tour of
the States with select opening acts.

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