A Woman A Man Walked By
Harvey's second co-billed album with John Parish shows many divergent sides of the singer, in a sense amounting to an audition reel full of character studies.
P.J. Harvey has become a master of crafting albums that find a single mood and dig deep inside it for 45 minutes. Her last, 2007’s White Chalk, was one of her best, filled with doomy folk laments and spectral textures. The second album-length partnership with frequent collaborator John Parish—he provided the music,…
The ninth track here is called “Passionless, Pointless,” and there’s a strong temptation to...
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A Woman a Man Walked By arrived just a year and a half after PJ Harvey's equally difficult and brilliant White Chalk.
<p>The songs come from all over - the singer's charisma makes them into a whole, says <strong>Dorian Lynskey</strong></p>
The album illustrates how deeply two long-time collaborators understand each other’s creative restlessness and their flair for the dramatic.
To illuminate the depth of his working relationship with PJ Harvey, John Parish recently said:
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