The Hope Six Demolition Project
On a fascinating and flawed new album, PJ Harvey yokes the siren-like catchiness of her last great America-influenced album, Stories From the City… to the swamp-tarnished filth of her classic first three records.
The best promo for PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, came about entirely by accident. An unsuspecting Washington Post reporter published an account of the day he took a mysterious, dark-haired “musician/poet” on a tour of Washington, D.C.’s underdeveloped neighborhoods. That passenger…
England's poet laureate returns with a challenging, but deeply rewarding, takedown of poverty and the disproportionate spread of wealth.
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This isn’t the best or the bravest music of her career, but Harvey continues to pave new ground.
Harvey's new album is the follow-up to 2011's Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake
On 2011's Mercury Prize-winning Let England Shake, PJ Harvey connected World War I bloodbaths with the 21st century world in harrowing, moving ways.
PJ Harvey's ninth album presents problems thornier than mere perceived artistic license and minimal fact-checking.
Putting together The Hope Six Demolition Project must have been quite the ordeal: it involved inspiration from trips to Kosovo, Washington,...
There's a beautiful, full-circle moment that brings The Hope Six Demolition Project to a close. Forlorn horns and ghostly organs eventually give way to the sound of children playing in the background, forcing a moment or two of filterless human connection
You have to feel for the bass clarinet. In amongst all of the talk of passive poverty tourism and blurred narrative voices, little time has been spent
These songs, documenting Harvey’s travels in Afghanistan, Kosovo and Washington DC, can be a little too detached
The Hope Six Demolition Project by PJ Harvey, album review by Gregory albums. The full-length comes out on April 15th via Vagrant/Island Records.
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