Tag: PJ Harvey
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PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d Expect
Click or not: PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d ExpectYou can always expect the unexpected from PJ Harvey, yet you can be assured that you’ll get something haunting, thought provoking, terrifying, uplifting, depressing, beautiful and genuinely raw thrown into the creative blender. To call this a ‘cover’ doesn’t really begin to justify the way she’s taken control of not only the narrative but the… …
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The Paradox Of Art And Music
Click or not: The Paradox Of Art And MusicMusic is an art form. That’s a given. And just as there are obvious differences between the work of Monet and a kindergarten finger-painter, so there are between musicians and people who play a musical instrument. Some people decide they want to play in a band, while others are born to do it. This fact,… …
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The Duet That Created A Tempest
Click or not: The Duet That Created A TempestTo say there’s an air of excitement around the ChainSlap turntables right now would be a pretty large understatement. That we are going to witness live two of our all-time favourite artists within the space of a week seems at once both a dream and concurrently a little daunting. Will one overshadow the other? Or will the… …
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PJ Releases The Orange Monkey (Video)
Click or not: PJ Releases The Orange Monkey (Video)PJ Harvey has released the latest video from The Hope Six Demolition Project for the song The Orange Monkey. It’s as beautifully stark and quietly confronting as the song itself is, and a fitting visual narrative for a dark story wrapped in a joyous melody. The video was shot in Afghanistan and directed by Seamus Murphy, as with the… …
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It’s The Hope Six Demolition Project
Click or not: It’s The Hope Six Demolition ProjectThe Hope Six Demolition Project is here, and it’s been way too long a wait to experience Polly Jean Harvey’s talents again. Because you don’t listen to her music, you experience her magnificence. Okay? Good. It seems like an aeon since this album was announced to be in the making, with reports that PJ would be recording… …