Let england shake - PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey 's eighth album, out on Feb. 15, finds the singer turning her gaze outward, toward the political situation in her homeland of England. The topics are as bleak and violent as they were on her most lacerating work, but this time the subjects are soldiers falling in battle ("like lumps of meat") and landscapes that have been torn up, both physically and spiritually. Much of Let England Shake feels like an elegy for not just her homeland, but also the entire world; the bitterness behind the title of "This Glorious Land" is underlined by words like, "Our lands are plowed by tanks and feet, feet marching." Harvey composed the music after writing the lyrics — a process that took her about a year and a half — and the dreamy nature of many of these songs directly contrasts the brutality within. The autoharp is the defining instrument here, and its slightly tinny tone creates an atmosphere that's not of this world.
First Listen: PJ Harvey, 'Let England Shake' : NPR
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