PJ Harvey - White Chalk
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Artist: PJ HarveyEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Devil
- Dear Darkness
- Grow Grow Grow
- When Under Ether
- White Chalk
- Broken Harp
- Silence
- To Talk to You
- Piano
- Before Departure
- Mountain
Music reviews of White Chalk
Music Review: Please put down the BELL JAR. Sappy Pap from PJ
Rating: 1 Stars
Who Gave PJ Harvey the Silva Plath book? This recording has none of the grit magic or passion of her other records. It is snivelly and lacks any theme other than self pitty. I own all her records but this one for a very good reason. I actually loved the Peel Session Recordings by her. Where is the famous edge that this woman is famous for. If I wanted a bad Tori Amos record I would go get one.
I am all for a new sound unless it is the same sound that others have failed with. I hope for much more in her next record. The woman who recorded Dry, Rid of Me, Tales of the City Tales of the Sea and Un Uh Her will be back just skip this one.
Description of White Chalk
White Chalk is PJ HARVEY's eighth studio album and first new material since 2004's critically acclaimed Uh Huh Her. PJ Harvey went into the studio late last year to record and produce with Flood and John Parish. The three had worked together previously on the GRAMMY nominated To Bring You My Love and on Is This Desire?. White Chalk also includes musical contributions from Harvey's long time associate Eric Drew Feldman, and Jim White from The Dirty Three.
The album highlights PJ Harvey's incredible ability to consistently create a unique, yet always impactful experience with each new album. Her talents as a songwriter, musician, and producer have never been as powerful, or profound, as on White Chalk. The songs are wonderfully mesmerizing, leaving a hypnotic effect on the listener.
This carnival ride to the netherworld of the soul is PJ Harvey's most dizzyingly radical work since the raw pulse and grind of her 1993 debut. It's also entirely different. Harvey's created an emotionally fractured Gothic fairytale that rides on her spare, tattered piano playing and her voice, which she turns into a fragile siren's call: high, airy, and imperiled, and made otherworldly by a labyrinth of echo. Instead of pop tunes, Harvey offers an 11-song cycle that's the metaphorical story of a breakup in which the Devil, a drug-induced nightmare, and a seemingly bottomless pit of despair all play a part. At the end, in "The Mountain," her banshee wails conclude a journey so oblique it's worthy of David Lynch or Neil Gaiman. Flood, who co-produced Harvey's 1998 epic rock breakthrough Is This Desire? with her, reprises that role, but White Chalk is more chamber music--and a dark chamber at that. --Ted Drozdowski
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