Let England Shake (some more)

There's something nice about getting an album on the day it is released. Yesterday I found myself in Kings Heath and so popped along to Polar Bear and picked up a copy of PJ Harvey's Let England Shake. I toyed with buying it on vinyl but in the end opted for the CD.

Despite having heard quite a lot of the album prior to release, you need to sit down and listen to it in it's entirety to get to see what it is really like. Having only played it through once, my first impressions are good. Only time will tell as to whether it's a classic.   I have no doubt it will feature heavily in the end of year lists judging by the reviews it is getting. I wonder if it will make mine?

Let England Shake

I haven't posted any music for quite a while now and with some great things due for release in 2011 it's time to rectify that.

PJ Harvey's eighth studio album, Let England Shake, is due for release next week (14th February) and from the bits I've heard it sounds fantastic. Taking two and a half years to write it was recorded in a church in Dorset over a five week period in April/May of last year.

Here she is performing the title track on the Andrew Marr Show, last year, in front of Gordon Brown (then Prime Minister) who was a guest that day.

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake MP3