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- Date Released: June 30, 1992
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Too Pure
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We Say...
Polly Jean Harvey just may the ultimate alternative rock star. Her brand of supernatural blues is too classic for punk and too intense to ever settle into the mainstream. With a raw alto veering toward glossolalia and an angle-wise musicality that gave new meaning to the verb "to shred," Harvey, playing in the wiry trio that bore her name, stood up to her idols — Captain Beefheart and Howlin' Wolf — and showed how a woman born in the shadow of such giants (literally — this Englishwoman was raised by amateur blues-rock promoters) could wreak her own divine havoc. In songs full of harpies and goddesses, blood and water, hunger and nausea, P.J. Harvey made a new mythos for the millennium.
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They Say...
Polly Jean Harvey arrives fully formed as a songwriter on PJ Harvey's debut album, Dry. Borrowing its primitive attack from post-punk guitar rock and its form from the blues, Dry is a forceful collection of brutally emotional songs, highlighted by Harvey's deft lyricism and startling voice, as well as her trio's muscular sound. Her voice makes each song sound like it was an exposed nerve, but her lyrics aren't quite that simple. Shaded with metaphors and the occasional biblical allusion, Dry is essentially an assault on feminine conventions and expectations, and while there are layers of dark humor, they aren't particularly evident, since Harvey's singing is shockingly raw. Her vocals are perfectly complemented by the trio's ferocious pounding, which makes even the slow ballads sound like exercises in controlled fury. And that's the key to Dry: the songs, which are often surprisingly catchy -- "Dress" and "Sheela-Na-Gig" both have strong hooks -- are as muscular and forceful as the band's delivery, making the album a vibrant and fully realized debut.
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Oh My Lover |
3:57 |
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| 02. | |
O Stella |
2:36 |
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| 03. | |
Dress |
3:18 |
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Victory |
3:15 |
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| 05. | |
Happy and Bleeding |
5:03 |
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| 06. | |
Sheela-Na-Gig |
3:12 |
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| 07. | |
Hair |
3:45 |
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| 08. | |
Joe |
2:35 |
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| 09. | |
Plants and Rags |
4:08 |
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| 10. | |
Fountain |
3:52 |
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| 11. | |
Water |
4:32 |
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11 Total Tracks, 40:13 Total Length
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Credits
- PJ Harvey - Guitar // PJ Harvey - Violin // PJ Harvey - Vocals // PJ Harvey - Producer // PJ Harvey - Main Performer // Chas Dickie - Cello // Ben Groenevelt - Bass // Ben Groenevelt - Double Bass // Ian Olliver - Bass // Mike Paine - Guitar // Vernon - Producer // Rob Ellis - Drums // Rob Ellis - Harmonium // Rob Ellis - Vocals // Rob Ellis - Producer // Rob Ellis - Mixing // Steve Vaughan - Bass
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