FEATURE:
The Sensational Polly Jean
PHOTO CREDIT: Lex van Rossen
to mention PJ Harvey’s age but, as she is celebrating a big birthday tomorrow (9th October), I thought it was a great opportunity to compile a playlist of fifty PJ Harvey songs. Harvey is one of the most influential artists around and her music is sensational. Ever since 1992’s Dry, Polly Jean Harvey has charted her own course and done things her way. In the course of her career, she has barely put a foot wrong or released anything that was average – some might disagree, but you only need to listen back to her nine studio albums and there is brilliance bursting from every corner! In honour of the Dorset-born icon’s fiftieth birthday, I have assembled a half-century of tracks that, I feel, best displays her range and true brilliance. That said, I would urge people to check out all of her albums and really get a sense of how she started out and how the music has progressed through the years. Here, then, is a playlist of spellbinding tracks that could only have come from the mind…
PHOTO CREDIT: Seamus Murphy
OF the dazzling PJ Harvey.