Let England Shake

Don’t really like this genre of music.

Meh

lots of love for England. Decent songs

Mot as good as the other one.

Doesn't do the country justice

PJ förtjänar 100% att ha album med i denna lista men detta var inte "it".

Alternativ rock, politisk, god vokal, sangskrivning

Eh. I wasn't really crazy about it. Appreciate the anti-war lyrical content (at least that's what I got from my gleening), but the rest of the music doesn't really do much for me. Favorite tracks: "Bitter Branches", "The Glorious Land"

Incredibly forgettable album. The only thing that stood out was that I was annoyed by it any time anything catches my attention. 1/5

Not a fan feels like a medieval movie intro music 2/10

Ouch, not good

Caca

Nope.

This was not for me.

This sounds like something made by a middle schooler in their basement.

Sinceramente no es de mis gustos, lo dejé por la mitad porque no me movía nada, talvez no es el álbum o la artista. La voz de la artista me da creepy y eso me la baja al escucharla. No hay Top Picks

Hipster bs

I have to admit, I don't have a whole lot of hope for an album that was released on Valentine's Day. Any album released on Valentine's Day 2011 at least gives us a chance for it to be interesting, however. Unfortunately, it's still PJ Harvey. We'll go ahead and get the mic drop/title drop out of the way with *Let England Shake*, which is a song that leaves me with mixed feelings. Keep in mind this is 2011, written in 2010. Sixteen years in the rearview mirror at this point. Maybe it's a little prophetic to say, "I fear our blood won't rise again," given the current unpleasantness in the UK. I'm going to give it a half point for that. But in terms of being a rallying cry for political activism, no matter what that activism is, well, it's no Sex Pistols. This isn't helped by the sing-song monotone of PJ Harvey, which sometimes abandons the idea of scansion and meter for something that would be more at home in a prog rock bassline. As a way to start an album, not really doing it. Normally, opening a song with the line "Goddamn Europeans" would be a sure path to at least getting half a point. But then the rest of the song happens and I have to look askance, especially in the wake of the first track which earned half a point, which I am now going to claw back. See, here's the thing: I don't think PJ Harvey actually likes England in *The Last Living Rose*, which is a bit of a problem, honestly. I'd kind of like to get PJ's feelings on the current state of old Blighty, except I know that it would leave me irritated. Honestly, if you offered me the opportunity to have good old damp, filthy London with its battered books and fog rolling down behind the mountains and on the graveyards, then I'm going to tell you that sounds preferable to whatever PJ is trying to sell me. Unfortunately for her, she completely fails to follow up on saying what she actually wants. Instead, in the last verse, instead going for just some nature imagery. Sweetheart, you lined up on a kick and then you walked off the other direction. Failure. If you just imagine me rubbing at my face with an exhausted look, you'll probably just sum up my response to *The Glorious Land*. Now I see why it was such a well-rewarded album. It is full of shallow, politically leftist, mindless mouth noises. Gotcha. Everything's clear. Thumbs up. Oh no, war is bad, even though it preserved our life and allowed us to extend our power in ways that made life better for other people. God knows tanks and infantry are terrible things, and I'm sure that the world would be better if we had none. What is the glorious fruit of our land? Its fruit is deformed children. Well, PJ, you are one of them, so I suppose that brain damage does probably count. But let's set aside the vapid lyrics for a moment and talk about how this song is just structured for shit. You set up the opening with two quatrains, which are basically call and response. Then you have "Oh England, Oh America," followed by one quatrain, but not a second one, which would mimic and mirror the structure of the first block. It's like two lines got cut out of the second verse and were never replaced. But then you get two copies of the chorus, and then we go back to two quatrains. The second one is in fact deformed without actually putting together the last few lines. Basically, this is stupid and it reads like a first draft. What the hell? It really doesn't get any better from here, does it? The words that maketh murder is shallow, and we've returned to the wide-eyed, mindless sing-song monotone from PJ. We get essentially four verses of things that are bad about war and sort of like saying, "I like puppies," saying, "War is kind of bad," is the safest sort of mindless thing you can say. But you've also got this repeated bridge that just gets ground into the floor like beating a dead horse. "These are the words that maketh murder." Sure, all right, fine. What words? This goes on for some time, as it were, and leaves us with, again, another highly repetitious chanting of, "What if I take my problem to the United Nations?" Are those the words that maketh murder? I'm willing to believe and accept that they are, given the UN's actual success rate on intervening in damn near everything. It's a wholly incompetent international organization, heavily backed by England, perhaps unsurprisingly. If that's what it's trying to say, I'm willing to agree, but I feel like I want to argue just because the argument is so stupid. PJ, don't make me hate the people that I agree with. This would normally be another situation in which I offered at least a half point to someone who did a modicum of research about World War I and penned a song about the Gallipoli Campaign from 1915. That's when the fighting for Bolton's Ridge took place during the landing at Anzac Cove. See, these things have history and meaning. Not that you would actually learn that from listening to *All and Everyone*. Bolton's Ridge had the Australian Third Brigade push inland to secure Bolton's Ridge, went up against the Ottoman Seventh Company, and got mired down right there on top of it. It became a serious part of the frontline trenches and held by various Anzac units until they were finally evacuated in December of 1915. What was the point, you might ask? The Allies wanted to break the stalemate on the Western Front, knock the Ottoman Empire out of World War I and open a sea route to support Russia. Just for the record, I want to make sure you know the Ottomans were the bad guys here, and if you need to know why, do a little basic research. Seriously, I can't do your high school teacher's job all the time. Essentially though, while the Anzacs weren't able to push all the way through and achieve their aims, it did buy time and cost the Ottomans resources, which led to them signing an armistice with the Allies in late 1918. However, at no point, I feel comfortable saying, did anyone sing, "Death to all and everyone." This is just PJ going back to the vapid, "War is bad and ugly and I hate it" concept, except with a thin veneer of having looked in a book at least once. Okay, maybe PJ Harvey has looked into a book at least twice because we get the second song in a row about Gallipoli with *On Battleship Hill*, or at least a specific location during the 1915 Battle of Chunuk Bair in Turkey. It's the most surface-level empty reference that you can possibly make, of course, because that's what we expect of this at this point. The refrain, "cruel nature has won again," is obviously supposed to talk about both the erosive nature of actual physical processes in the world, as well as the cruel nature of man and his hunger for death and warfare—but I have to ask, if you believe that it is part of the cruel nature of man to kill and be killed, then what's the point of complaining about it? You make peace with it and figure out how to use it in your favor. You don't sit and whine while looking at the places where other better men have died for you and to try and protect you, even if their efforts were in vain. This is some hollow bullshit. When it comes to the song *England*, I'm going to have to quote another very popular English writer and say, "Methinks the lady doth protest too much," especially in the context of a pile of discordant wailing that triggers all of the responses to a crying baby, thanks to the grating nasal delivery and vocal fry. We get it, PJ. You think the land of your birth is a horrific, nasty place which leaves you sadness and there's nothing you can do about it, and it's bitter in your mouth, and the people are stagnated. Frankly, if it wasn't for the rest of the songs of this album I've experienced so far, I would think that this might have a hope of leading to an epiphany of realization. But no, it's just screeching at the sky. Great. *In the Dark Places*. Oh, lovely. How about what this album needs is yet another, "war is bad" quote, vapid, repetitive, monotonic slag off of a song. That's exactly what this album needs. Yes, young men march off to war, and some of them die and don't come back, and some of them do come back. Yes, that's how it works. That's how it's always worked and how it will always work. But you don't get to be a part of England's green and rolling hills, then say, "But not one man and not one woman has revealed the secrets of this world as a result of war." England's going to war ended slavery in a very literal sense. You didn't think Africans and Arabs stopped trading slaves because they were asked nicely, did you? It was because of going to war that India could become a world power, even if part of going to that war ended up with them throwing off the yoke of English rule. This anti-war sentiment always irks me because as a modern human being who lives in the West and takes advantage of all of the goodness it allows, including selling millions of albums using the internet and having the ability to engage in self-determination, all of those things were a direct result or a direct byproduct of war. Everything good in your existence is the result of war, including your very existence. But PJ is starting to make me wonder if it was worth it if millions of years of evolution and hundreds of thousands of years of warfare led to PJ Harvey. This is an all anti-war album, isn't it? This is the manifestation of the weakest kind of thinking in the modern age. *Bitter Branches* is not helping matters, not just because it's another wailing song for screaming at the sky about the injustice of existence and the necessity to remain within it. Oh, no, no, no. The real crime here is that it's two minutes and 30 seconds of words that would take about 15 seconds to say. The musical accompaniment isn't worth the additional cognitive overhead. "Oh no, young men go off to war and some of them die. Women hardest hit." That's the song in a nutshell. It pains me that I have three songs left on this album to make it through. I'd love to wave goodbye, thanks. Yeah, we're still here in WWI. Thanks, *Hanging in the Wire*. What we needed on this album was a simplistic melody tied to lyrics about the perspective of a corpse hanging in barbed wire as the battle continues going on elsewhere. I don't know what you want from me here. As a mood piece, it's not even really moody. The melody is too upbeat for that. It's not cheerful, but it's not even a lament. It's like a tone poem, but the tone is gray. Not even an interesting gray, not slate or ruddy, it's just 50% gray, with a melody that sounds like somebody is having a good time somewhere else. I can't say this is where the album goes off the rails, because frankly, it was never on the rails to begin with. But at least it had something it wanted to say and was saying it, however poorly and ill-conceived. But "Written on the Forehead" just decides to step off and go haring off into the weeds. What it wants to do is paint a picture of what the civilian population and refugees from war experience, and it deliberately chooses to frame and couch that imagery in that of the Middle East. Sure, not a problem. We've got plenty of war over there for the last 6,000 years or so. The core idea here seems to be the one that Harvey can't get beyond: "War is bad and there are terrible things." But then there's the choice of sample she chooses to leverage for the background, which is from The Observers' 1970s reggae classic *Blood and Fire*. Now, I love reggae, which may come as a surprise, but I had never heard of this song. However, now I have to go look it up because the bit that she sampled was, quote, "let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, burn, burn, blood, blood, blood, blood and fire!" Look, one of the things that you should never do in the course of making media you want people to listen to is remind them of something better than what you've created that they could be doing instead. I want to go listen to that album and I'm going to do it after I'm done here. What I'm saying is that perhaps ending your anti-war song with the literal chant of "let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, burn, burn" may not be accomplishing what you wanted in the grander scheme. The final song on this wretched album, *The Color of the Earth*, actually helped me figure out what it is that bothers me about a lot of these songs on a very elemental and structural level. They sound like children's songs. They have children's song melodies, simple, structured for a tiny mind. Unambitious. When they do strive for something broader than that, it turns into a discordant jangle. This song is no different. In fact, it epitomizes all the childishness found elsewhere. We're back to Gallipoli, talking about how a guy's buddy died out in the darkness and that he still thinks about him 20 years later. The color of the earth was dull and browny red, the color of blood. That's it. That's all it has to say. Again, "war is bad." That's the full depth that we have on display here. I have heard a lot of anti-war albums and songs over the decades. A lot of them are tedious and wretched and short-sighted. At least most of them involved a call to action, an encouragement of the listener to higher aspirations, a suggestion that they do something to help change the world in which we live, to make it a better place free of war, even if that is an impossibility. The suggestion that even the effort improves the world for everyone. Not this album. No, this album is just sitting in a corner, rocking back and forth, crying, looking at a World War I picture book written for eight-year-olds. That's it. That's the whole thing. Perhaps that's why it's so frustrating and irritating. It could have been something, it could have said something, it could have wanted something, but it didn't. It just didn't. No, I didn't like it, sir. Not one bit.

no me gustó

Female vocals were very screechy

A far cry from her album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, which I gave a solid 3/5 when I listened to it about 5 months ago. This album was straight dog shit and a sonic assault on my ears. It reminded me slightly of the bad Fiona Apple album I had toward the beginning of my journey, but this was much much worse. Harvey’s “singing” was described by my wife (we were road tripping, so she was subjected to these albums as well) as sounding like a cat getting its tail stepped on, a perfect descriptor thinking back. The music does nothing to give it any redeeming qualities. This PJ Harvey album will enter the Hall of Shame as my tenth 1/5.

This didnt really do much for me. Wasnt into it, but it was pleasant enough background music.

I let England shake as long as they keep this music for themselves. Even though it wasn't extraordinarily bad, it was pretty damn bad.

This was a chore to sit through. An album I'd never want to revisit.

fav song: the last loving rose dry, thin 20/100

Uninteresting

This is the second PJ Harvey album I’ve listened to on this site, and I can now confidently say I’m not a fan. Critics love her; listeners don’t - a fact reflected by her mountain of accolades and awards, in contrast to relatively lacklustre commercial success. Here, she sings about war and patriotism with all the subtlety of a flying mallet, tackling subjects I can’t imagine she’s particularly qualified to comment on. And musically, it’s extremely forgettable, often feeling derivative of artists like Kate Bush, Björk, and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries. Overall, this comes across as something akin to African Child by Aldous Snow: an artist naively choosing a heavy subject because they saw it on the telly and thought, “this is bad.”

Never heard of her before. I can get behind the lyrics, but my god is this a miserable album to listen to. Grating vocals and annoying arrangements. I literally can't tell if it sounds bad on purpose or if some people like this. Fave songs: Let England Shake

Not for me

No thank you. A total snore fest.

Eh

Too weak, like something you would hear on KEXP.

No thank you.

So boring

2/10

Mich mit einem ruhigen Album zu langweilen? Das passiert häufiger schonmal. Mich mit einem ruhigen Album aber zu nerven? Oh weh. Das ist richtig grausam. Alleine der Gesang nervt so unfassbar, was ein Gejammer. Dann kommt die Instrumentalisierung/Songwriting dazu und macht es noch schlimmer. Das ist Müll, wenn ich könnte würde -5 geben. Ganz schrecklich.

Ein Album voller Tiefen und Tiefen. Stimmlich nicht meins und dachte häufiger es handelt sich um Satire bei den Tönen die da raus kommen

Odd sounds for oddballs. I’m better without oddballs.

I’m not a fan of PJ…

such a stark departure from what i'm looking for when i come to a pj harvey album that it was shocking. and while i didn't necessarily expect it to become what i am familiar with, i did expect it to become good and it did not

I don't like war stories, I didn't like these vocals, and I especially don't really care for or about England

Gaap

I just dont like it. I tried and I had to quit. Maybe its because I dont wanna feel miserable right now haha

What is this? Why is it here? Yea this sucks.

Piece of shit

Too weird for my taste. Skipped most tracks.

slow. all over. message. meh.

No, just no. Didn't finish the album.

Not a great start. Felt mostly weird and detached. Songs about England's battles and horrors, I'm sure it's clever. But I was not hooked

Painful. Occasionally tolerable.

Not for me

not for me

Ik zie niet zo in wat dit nu nog toevoegt aan de lijst. Overduidelijke snobkeuze. Het is een beetje wazige folky elfjesrock. Het is niet per se heel slecht, maar ik heb er helemaal niks mee en halverwege heb ik het wel gehoord allemaal. Zonde van mijn tijd verder en ik snap niet zo goed waarom van een artiest die vele decennia daarvoor een paar redelijke albums heeft uitgebracht, nu nog een nieuw album toegevoegd moet worden. Doe dan een nieuwe artiest. Dan zeg ik daarover dat het op PJ Harvey lijkt ofzo, maar dan krijgen we tenminste een nieuwe ervaring. Dit is gewoon vergane glorie die op een moeilijke manier probeert relevant te blijven. Als er nu hordes 20-jarige muziekliefhebbers hier op af waren gekomen, maar waarschijnlijk staan er alleen maar 50-jarige fans van de oude stempel bij concerten van PJ Harvey. Ik twijfel tussen de 1 en de 2, maar aangezien het feit dat ik het erg graag wilde afzetten, ronden we het gewoon moeiteloos af naar de 1, ook vanwege de volstrekt overbodigheid van een extra toevoeging aan een uitbreiding van de snoblijst. Onnodig.

This album feels like a witch is casting a spell on you, but not like, a real witch. I mean like a self described "witch" who is really some white girl with a nose ring and a book on Wicca who asks to bum a cigarette off of you, but then changes her mind and says gross when she sees it's not a Green American Spirit.

Not a fan,

Pretentious and fart-sniffy. Sounds like a grungy Lana Del Rey. Hard pass. One star.

Almost painful to listen to on a couple songs. So bad it was comedic.

Not my jam.

I listened to this but I don’t remember anything about it except a bit of guitar.

I’m sure some people like this album. I’m not one of those people. .

I had to check if this was the same PJ Harvey I'd had already twice. I do not like the Celtic folk influence at all. She doesn't even sound like the same person singing. Wow yeah I hate this. I love when artists experiment and encourage it but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

it was not my cup of tea. Eventhough it is my style of music.

Nah.

Was this album released this way on purpose or did they accidentally record it this way and PJ Harvey said release it? Either way, horrible!!! 1 star.

The magic of PJ Harvey is completely gone here. This is not very good, and often just annoying to listen to

Let PJ Harvey Shake more like. Possibly the shakeist voice I have ever heard. Also possibly one of the most annoying voices I have ever heard. Doesn’t help adding random sound bits from more popular old songs that just do not fit with the song she plays over them. Overall, ass. 1/10

Ein Song nerviger als der andere.

Too much experimental, too much garage-sound and a little bit too sad.

Meh.

This is too pretentious for me.

Switch on radio 6 in the early 2010s and this stuff is basically every song you'd hear I looked at the Wikipedia page and as predicted it's full of 5 star reviews from the pretentious music press. A middle aged woman singing about the horrors of young men going to war is borderline cultural appropriation!

Wow. I didn't know what pretentious really meant until I heard this thing. When I got to that song "England"... no words.

This sounds like if Fever Ray was British. And sucked.

Uninteresting, grating, and airy. Nothing I found remotely enjoyable or engaging. Completely skippable

Oh that's right. PJ Harvey. That pitchy, shaky, shrieky voice that somehow passes for talent. OK. Thanks for the reminder that I don't get it.

No, just no

I refuse to believe that anyone truly enjoys PJ Harvey. Even the artistic value of this “album” is low.

Din like it. Not god-awful or anything, but even with it being pretty experimental, I did not really find it interesting at all. Some songs were straight unlistenable tho.

Not really enjoyable

Didn’t do it for me 🫠

Ok

lyrically this album just kinda wasn’t great. It struck me as a mix of angst-ey middle schooler and a middle school girl writing in her journal. OIL SPILL. OIL SPILL. it’s a no from me dawg

Unlistenable. This album came out in 2010. No excuses.

😐

One of the few albums I couldn't finish.

Not for me. Found it dull.

Это их борьба.... Их нравы....

My god this was rough. Why did this make this list? There were a few moments here and there that weren't bad, but overall it was pretty terrible. 1.5/5

Unavailable on Spotify.

Oof.

nah, not something I want to hear again

Was this the one that won the mercury prize? Is that why it’s on this list? Because I can’t see any other reason why you’d pick this album as one of the greatest of all time.

What are you going on about?

Ik weet van het bestaan van PJ Harvey, maar meer niet echt. Het thema van dit album ligt bij de de Engelse nationaliteit, landschap, oorlogen, politiek, etc. En ik maar denken dat Polly Jean een Amerikaanse was. Na het album twee keer van top tot teen geluisterd te hebben weet ik het zeker: los van The Last Living Rose vind ik er niet veel aan. Sorry Polly. Wel een leuke sample tegengekomen: Blood and Fire van Niney the Observer in het nummer Written On The Forehead. Highlights: The Last Living Rose Rating: 5,5

Alternative music, I guess. Not crazy about her voice.

I thought at album 1001 I was done. I thought that after 1001 I would have hit every pj Harvey album. Neither of those were true. This list continues to find ways to make me suffer with some albums. I will say this wasn’t the worst pj Harvey album and probably the most palatable. Yet it is still not a fun thing to listen to. 2.5/10

Blegh - this album whiffs of an artist intentionally creating a stinky album because they've won all of the awards and know people will eat it up - and y'all fell for it! If that's not the case, then this record is just a mish-mash of nothing particularly inspired or inspiring.

primera y ultima

Did not like this at all

dude this blows.

I only listened to part of the album because I couldn't stand the voice.

Not for me

Sigh….This album is like musical celery. Tastes kind of interesting but for me there is no substance or nutritional value. I think this chick is more of a poet and def sounded that way. Little too artistic and self serving for my tastes.

Genre: Folk Instruments: 2/5 (I liked the auto harp) Modern Translation: 1/5 Dance Potential: 1/5 Listening Location: Commute to work Favourite Song: None Made me feel: Confused and weirded out. I first realised this was an album about war when I heard the military trumpet in the third track, then I started reading the lyrics. I don’t love albums that make political statements and this was no different. Liked her voice, creative education but not for me. Was nominated for a bunch of awards though.

What is with the bugle thing in "The Glorious Land". I thought some other tab was making noise it was so discordant. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Felt like artsy fartsy music college music that would get the alt hippis to snap fingers and nod about how deep it is

Wasn't feeling it

Nicht meine Richtung

Definitely not my thing, too downbeat and miserable.

This is... not good. It's pretentious, boring, and haz literally zero stand out moments. Someone asks this for every album so I guess it's my turn. Why would this album make it to the list? It's not culturally significant, it's not influencing anyone of note, and does nothing new in any way. It's just crappy indie rock.

Really not a fan of PJ Harvey

Bad

Trash

Goddamn this Obama era jangle rock is aggressively not for me.

Nope!

Boring. Takes no risks, not a single memorable melody. Boo

Nope

Never thought I'd listen to British hipster music, but here we are. Borderline unbearable

Musically starts out interesting but slowly just repeats itself over and over. However, that's not its problem. It's melodically barren and rendered excruciating by the teenage level "oo England is bad war is bad" lyrics. Dreadful self centred low self-awareness moaning so loved by the kind of people that you should avoid talking to at parties.

this music sucks

Boring

Really not that great

Did nothing for me. Quickly became back ground noise and stayed there.

i literally could not finish this album which may be a first for me

Really strange

Did not like

Lots of death and murder lyrics and sharp tones. Not my fav

This is so terrible. I hope that nothing like this happens again through the rest of the 1001 albums.

Sick of it by halfway through

This just kept getting worse as it went on

I like it in theory especially after the melodic noise that is pink floyd. but where that was easy to tune out, PJ Harvey has this way of raising her voice up and down in register that I find very hard to tune out during my day. I turned it off, but I guess that's reason enough to give it 1 star.

Poor

Some of this album is even kinda OK. Unfortunately a larger percentage of it is appalling. Like, uncomfortable to listen to appalling. "England" was the first of it to get a skip. Warbling tosh, the sort of thing you expect to hear from a talentless 2nd year university student at an open mic night. "Written on the forehead" needs to get in the sea.

meh only got 3 songs in

Meh

Too nationalistic to my taste. England’s past glory is BuSh, like for all imperialistic nations.

Dude this is not an album you need to listen to before you die. It seriously sucked ass.

Awful everything

i didn't finish but i dunno i was just not into this

Here we go again with my he-man woman-haters club, but bleghhhhh. The words that maketh murder was interesting, nothing else captivated my attention.

uh, yea I didn't like this.

Not my cup of tea

Absolutely not. I mean I'll try but I did not vibe with her 'Dry' album last time. Not my sound. But I'll give it a try... No comment. 1/10

Première déception. 1 song in and I'm already bored and almost skipped it. I does not really get better and even tho the production is much better than the first album we heard before, it feels quite uninspired. I almost want to stop after 1 third of the album. Okay, I survived to the end, tolerated only one song, and skipped at the last one. Really not my jam I guess, I hadn't been so bored in a while. @+ PJ Harvey, happy that the album is done 1.5/5

i don't know why pj harvey personally seeks me out to make my ears bleed. her voice is too unsteady. it does not sound good. some songs aren't even good when you focus on the instrumentation. i know i'm not usually a fan of folk albums, but i don't even think folk appreciates what pj harvey is doing. not a fan but i have to listen to more albums by pj harvey on this list. thanks for nothing, robert dimery and micahel lydon.

I thought this album was obnoxious. The vocalist was talented but chose to flip and flutter her notes in an ugly way. The moments that were nice were overshadowed by my hatred for the rest.

Not gonna lie, I couldn’t finish it.

4th album from PJ. It's just some boring woman. What is noteworthy about this artist? 1 star for showing up again. Albums fine boring

Fucking English Propaganda. This album blows. Tomorrow can’t come soon enough

Very folks-y and not really to my taste. There is a lot of whiney sounding lyrics that would be made out as unique, but what it really is, is annoying. Best: The Words That Maketh Murder Worst: England

This was a rough album for me. Could not get into the music, lyrics or the voice of the singer. Tried to find something I liked, but just could not find it.... Not a fan. I'd give a zero, but can't figure out how to put vote in without any stars

Composition wasn’t bad just wasn’t for me

This folk rock album is English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey's eighth album. It is loosely an anti-war album about the hardships Harvey's home country has gone through. The music is ethereal, timeless, and soothing. However, it's not my taste. The album seems to be highly credited, but to be honest I'm not sure why. The songs had no attention grabbing hooks or lyrics, and it reminded me of something I would put on to go to sleep. Some listeners out there may love this, but not me.

Had to go back to check that the woman who made something as powerful and visceral as ‘Dry’ is the same woman who recorded this pile of crap. Very firmly in the ‘did not like’ camp. Lyrically, I found the treatment of the theme of war handled simplistically and inauthentically. Melodically things weren’t much better.

This is the third album from PJ Harvey dir me in this project. I read about PJ Harvey getting nominated for this award2and winning that award and selling oh so many records... I still don't get it. While i could get used to the music at a good day, in can't geht used to her voice. You know the feeling that you get, when you get to the dentist and hear the humming in the other room and all you can think of is how you want to be another place far away? Thats' how i feel about the voice of PJ Harvey. She starts singing and it's like a needle piercing right into my ears... You get it...

Boring

1/5 it really got on my nerves the army morning song.

Not good

not really for me

Honestly awful. I get the protest song vibes but the vocalist was not good and the music was generic. Couldn't finish the album.

Hate this so much.

not keen

A perfect lp to die

Thank god that's over. That was a slog to get through, apparently this person is insanely popular? Never heard of her and I hope I never have to hear another song. Grating vocals, weird screechy instruments and noises. Intros that just go on forever. That was a bummer to have to experience.

No words.

Girl... what is this? The Glorious Land might just be one of the worst songs I've ever heard. On the plus side, I've never heard so many positive things said about England. And the last half of The Words That Maketh Murder wasn't all that bad. Maybe it's just not for me because I did not enjoy this album.

Too slow. Not interesting. Music to commit suicide by! Some of the later songs aren't as bad, but still not my cup of tea.

I didn't really enjoy this album. 1.5/5 stars.

did not like

Pas tout écouté, pas ma cam

Not a fan. Never heard of the band, the music was run of the mill, not even sure how it made this list.

Verschrikking

not really me tbh.

Feels much more refined than the debut album by PJ Harvey. Sadder. An eulogy for a kingdom.