Loverly

PJ Harvey, who we love, but who we haven't had the chance to write about yet, cuz she hasn't released solo music during Shiny & New's reign of journalistic terror, is on the cusp of unleashing her 8th studio album, Let England Shake. It comes out on the 14th of February 2011 (the end of the world edges ever nearer-er) and in anticipation of it, here is a 'cut' - as some are wont to call it - from the work. Tis called "Written on the Forehead" and it's really charming and odd. Ms. Polly-Jean's voice sounds higher and frailer than usual (digital dickery?) and the music itself is far away from the ambitious, grungey, neo-post-quasi-Patti Smith thing she had going on previously. It sounds witchy, and like a lighter flipside to her last, dark, gothic, ghostly 2007 album, White Chalk.

Anyway we like it a lot, it has a nice crisp wintery feel, and hopefully you will, too.



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