PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
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Artist: PJ HarveyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-02-28
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- To Bring You My Love
- Meet Ze Monsta
- Working For The Man
- C'Mon Billy
- Teclo
- Long Snake Moan
- Down By The Water
- I Think I'm A Mother
- Send His Love To Me
- The Dancer
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Music Review: Big black monsoon, take me with you
Rating: 5 Stars
Recorded during September and October of 1994 at Townhouse Three in Battersea, Polly Jean Harvey's second masterpiece "To Bring You My Love" is an everlasting piece of art. The record has garnered Polly a large cult following, a spot on end of the year lists, global recognition and it went platinum in 1995. It's no surprise--the material found on "To Bring You My Love" is brimming with potency and strength. Guitars, organ, vibes and E-Bow fuel the fire in "To Bring You My Love", the opener of all openers. It continues with the brilliant beat set by Jean-Marc Butty in the stomping "Meet Ze Monsta". Polly's demanding performance makes you understand that she means business--big time. "To Bring You My Love" marks the most confident vocal delivery of PJ's career.
The minimalism of her work is near perfect: "Working For The Man" bears but a small melody on a watery guitar and she barely sings the words; "I Think I'm A Mother" is a bluesy number that works as a homage to one of Polly's greatest heroes, Don Van Vliet (another direct homage on the album is "Teclo" which has a chorus melody taken straight from "Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles"). And although "Working For The Man" and "I Think I'm A Mother" leave something to be desired, the coherence of the record is one of its strongest points. The rest of the material on "To Bring You My Love" doesn't fail to astonish. Each song on the record--the excellent singles "C'Mon Billy" and "Down By The Water", the hard-rocker "Long Snake Moan", the guitar and strings driven "Send His Love To Me" and the elegant closer "The Dancer"--is filled with longing, lust and loneliness as the lyrics suggest. Polly plays many an instrument (chimes, organ, piano, bell, vibes, guitar) and she's a marvelous musician.
"Down By The Water", a pure '90s classic, sounds like a frizzy drink with its excellent guitar melody led by Joe Gore and a murderous whispering coda at the end. The material on "To Bring You My Love" is simple, but original and unique, the singing is powerful, the lyrics close to being best of her career. String arrangement by Pete Thomas adds a delicate touch to the album, as does percussion by John Parish, the second genius behind this work. The songwriting touches upon religious themes and remains inspiring. Polly tried on the mask of desperation for the second time and played it so well that she can deservedly be called an actress, among other things. The most surprising thing about "To Bring You My Love" is how nothing on it sounds dated, mostly due to the album not being contextualized in terms of time and space, music-wise.
It took her some time to recover from the overwhelming acclaim she received; it wasn't until 1998 that she released another album. Other than that, she stated in an interview that she was having the time of her life. "To Bring You My Love" seems cold and unwelcoming at first, but it demands active participation, as most of Polly's work. It is highly rewarding after more listens, and it showcases Polly as an album artist in the most strictest sense. She never repeated this move and it's no wonder--an artistic statement like this one happens only once in a lifetime.
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After fumbling around with producer-from-hell Steve Albini on Rid of Me (1993) and signing with U2 manager Paul McGuinness, Polly Jean Harvey is ready to live up to her lethal early promise at last. With its growling bass tones, "Meet Ze Monsta" sets the stage early on as Harvey explores her feminine psyche with an intensity and raw power unheard since Patti Smith's heyday. Unlike the terminally inconsistent Smith, however, Harvey plots a brilliant course through slippery laments ("Working for the Man"), corrosive testifying ("Long Snake Moan"), and fuzz-toned menace ("Down by the Water"). Skeptics who think Harvey can't outgrow her art-punk base are advised to cue up the flamenco-inflected, string-caressed "Send His Love to Me." --Jeff BatemanGeneral CDs
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