PJ Harvey

   
Artist: PJ Harvey

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   ROck: Alternative
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 White Chalk

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 11


   
 Uh Huh Her

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 14


   
 Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 12


   
 To Bring You My Love

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rid Of Me

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 14


   
 Dry

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 11

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During the early-'90s alternative rock'n'roll blowup, several distaff singer/songwriters rose to prominence, just few were as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of three albums, Harvey established herself as one of the most single and influential songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of gender, love, and religion with unnerving silver dollar, dark witticism, and a distorted staginess. At the offset of her career, she light-emitting diode the iII PJ Harvey, wHO delivered her sodding songs with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by her 1992 debut, Dry. Following the noisy, inflexible follow-up, Disembarrass of Me, the trio fell aside, and PJ Harvey became the sole dimension of Polly Harvey. Her future record, 1995's To Bring You My Love, became her mainstream critical breakthrough, positive her status as 1 of the fundament figures of '90s alternative john Rock.


William Harvey was raised on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England, where she was elevated by her quarryman father of the Church and her mother, world Health Organization was an creative person. As a baby, she conditioned how to play guitar and sax, and when she was a stripling, she played in a variety of bands as a sideman. In 1991, she formed PJ Harvey with bassist Steve Vaughn and drummer Robert Ellis, and the trio recorded its debut record for under 5,000 dollars. The band gestural with the British indie label Too Pure and released "Line up" that fall. "Dress" became a indie rock sense experience, as did its followup, "Sheela-Na-Gig," with both singles receiving plushy congratulations in the U.K. music push. Although Harvey was a loath interviewee, she presciently secondhand the press to her reward, whether it was through and through her candid interviews or startling, on occasion disturbingly aphrodisiacal photograph roger Sessions, which subverted traditional concepts of female gender.


PJ Harvey's debut, Dry, was released in spring 1992 to considerable kudos; it was distributed in America by Island Records. The trio followed it with an all-encompassing tour, culminating with an appearing at that summer's Reading Festival. Shortly after the tour, Harvey affected to London, where she closely suffered a queasy breakdown due to the extraordinary pressure and first moment encompassing her moment record album. The grouping hired former Big Black frontman Steve Albini (Pixies, Breeders) as the producer of their second album, Free of Me. Albini imposed his earmark noisy, guitar-heavy sound on the record, which mirrored its harder-edged themes. Disembarrass of Me was a major critical success and expanded Harvey's cult greatly. She supported the album with a tour featuring herself in a juke leopard-skin coat and a square boa, signal her development interest group in theatricality. At the end of the year, Harvey released 4-Track Demos, a compendium of her original versions of the songs on Rid of Me.


Next the Free of Me circuit, Ellis and Vaughn parted shipway with Harvey, and she recorded her third gear album as a solo artist, augmented by producer Flood, bassist Mick Harvey, and guitarists John Parish and Joe Gore. Harvey developed a richer, bluesier sound with the expanded ring, and the resulting record, To Bring You My Love, was hailed as a masterpiece by many critics upon its February 1995 spill. Thanks to considerable push aid, as well as strong support from MTV and modern rock radio receiver for the individual "Down by the Water," To Bring You My Love became a mince arrive at, ingress the U.S. charts at identification number 40. Harvey exhausted all of 1995 touring the album, and exhausted the following twelvemonth in congener privacy. During 1996 she was comparatively smooth, only appearing twice on record book: at one time in a duet with Nick Cave on his Mangle Ballads album -- the couple were reportedly romantically involved -- and vocalizing on John Parish's Dance Hall at Louse Point. Is This Desire? followed in 1998. Two years by and by, Harvey reunited with Ellis and Mick Harvey for Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, which returned to her before, more aggressive style and was inspired by her six-month remain in New York City in 1999.


The album south Korean won the 2001 Mercury Prize, devising Harvey the first female winner of that prize. After extended touring in support of the album, Harvey split her clock time over the next iI years working on young material and collaborating with like-minded friends and coevals. Appearing on Gordon Gano's Hit the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover Magazine, and John Parish's How Animals Move, Harvey's most spectacular coaction was with the Queens of the Stone Age side image the Desert Sessions. She performed on more than half of 2003's Desert Sessions, Vols. 9-10, including the unmarried Crawl Home. That summer, she likewise performed at the V Festival, previewing tracks from her newfangled record album, which she aforementioned was shut to organism finished. The album, Uh Huh Her, appeared in summer 2004, cooccurring with some other string of term of enlistment dates, including British and European festival appearances at Glastonbury, T in the Park, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Spain's La Primavera festival. Stateside, Harvey was scheduled to join the revived Lollapalooza festival for quality dates, connection Morrissey and Sonic Youth on the independent stage. Upon the cancellation of that festival, yet, she mounted a solo enlistment of the States with choice opening acts. Three age later the ever-evolving instrumentalist released Edward Douglas White Jr. Chalk, her first piano-based record album.