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PJ Harvey has long been considered one of England’s most innovative and iconoclastic female artists and with her 8th studio album Let England Shake she embarks on a historical musical voyage as she seeks to define her relationship with the land of her birth. This is a musical excavation of England’s very soil, of its history and the violent and bloody cycles of conflict that have shaped the nations geography and psyche. It’s sometimes bleak, sometimes beautiful but it is always utterly compelling.  Maybe the boldest statement the album makes with understated eloquence is, to quote George Bernard Shaw “we learn from history that we learn nothing from history”, war it seems is as cyclical and inevitable as the changing of the seasons.

ARTIST: PJ Harvey
TITLE: Let England Shake
LABEL: Island
RELEASE DATE: February 11, 2011
TIME: 39:51 min.
WEB: http://www.pjharvey.net/

01. Let England Shake [03:07]
02. The Last Living Rose [02:21]
03. The Glorious Land [03:34]
04. The Words That Maketh Murder [03:41]
05. All and Everyone [05:42]
06. On Battleship Hill [04:06]
07. England [03:07]
08. In the Dark Places [02:56]
09. Bitter Branches [02:26]
10. Hanging in the Wire [02:40]
11. Written in the Forehead [03:37]
12. The Colour of the Earth [02:34]

PJ Harvey – The Words That Maketh Murder

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