{"id":277493,"date":"2011-02-22T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/02\/22\/pj-harvey-says-let-england-shake\/"},"modified":"2011-02-22T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T14:04:42","slug":"pj-harvey-says-let-england-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/pj-harvey-says-let-england-shake\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Harvey says &#8216;Let England Shake&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"66.7758130723\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link -->       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>By <b>Rob Sheffield<\/b>, RollingStone.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"46.9853018373\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <!-- REAP --><!--startclickprintexclude--><!--===========CAPTION==========--><\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<p>Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--===========\/CAPTION=========--> <!--endclickprintexclude--><!-- \/REAP --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Let England Shake&#8221; sounds a world apart from Harvey&#8217;s last solo album, 2007&#8217;s &#8220;White Chalk&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The sound is muted guitar\/organ balladry, heavy on melody but never rocking out<\/li>\n<li>She was in a rural 19th-century church with collaborators like John Parish, Mick Harvey<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">RollingStone.com)<\/a><\/b> &#8212; All British rock stars eventually make their version of &#8220;Led Zeppelin III&#8221; &#8212; the album where they look to the history and mythology of England for inspiration. <\/p>\n<p>Usually, this means pastoral celebrations and druids dancing around the maypole. (Hark, minstrel! Is that a bustle in the hedgerow?) <\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\">Polly Jean Harvey<\/a>, as always, does things her own way, so there&#8217;s no celebration on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Let-England-Shake-PJ-Harvey\/dp\/B004GHYCKW\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let England Shake<\/a>.&#8221; Even as she sings, &#8220;Take me back to beautiful England,&#8221; she focuses on war, imperialism and bad sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let England Shake&#8221; sounds a world apart from the introspective piano confessions of Harvey&#8217;s last solo album, 2007&#8217;s &#8220;White Chalk.&#8221; For England, she holed up in a rural 19th-century church, accompanied by longtime collaborators like John Parish, Mick Harvey and producer Flood. <\/p>\n<p>The sound is muted guitar\/organ balladry, heavy on melody but never rocking out, channeling her voice through different electronic filters for that extra touch of spooky alienation. In &#8220;The Last Living Rose,&#8221; she sings about Blighty&#8217;s &#8220;gray, damp filthiness of ages.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.rollingstone.com\/hearitnow\/player\/pjharvey.html\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click to Listen to PJ Harvey&#8217;s &#8220;Let England Shake&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past. And you don&#8217;t have to care about English history &#8212; or England in general &#8212; to fall under Harvey&#8217;s spell.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/cnn_showbiz\/~3\/fCAX36tY9HY\/index.html\" title=\"PJ Harvey says 'Let England Shake'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PJ Harvey says &#8216;Let England Shake&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Rob Sheffield , RollingStone.com Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past. STORY HIGHLIGHTS &#8220;Let England Shake&#8221; sounds a world apart from Harvey&#8217;s last solo album, 2007&#8217;s &#8220;White Chalk&#8221; The sound is muted guitar\/organ balladry, heavy on melody but never rocking out She was in a rural 19th-century church with collaborators like John Parish, Mick Harvey ( RollingStone.com) &#8212; All British rock stars eventually make their version of &#8220;Led Zeppelin III&#8221; &#8212; the album where they look to the history and mythology of England for inspiration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PJ Harvey says &#039;Let England Shake&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/22\/pj-harvey-says-let-england-shake\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"PJ Harvey says &#039;Let England Shake&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Rob Sheffield , RollingStone.com Always an underrated guitarist, Harvey makes use of the jaunty rhythms of British folk music, but takes no comfort in the past. 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