pj harvey’s new album

on the flight to singapore, i listened to the newest gomez album, which was very, very good. i also listened to the new pj harvey album, ‘let england shake’. i listened to it twice all the way through, and i listened to a handful of the songs (all and everyone, england, in the dark places, written on the forehead), several times. buy this album. buy it now. it is brilliant. i haven’t been as moved by a whole album as i was by this one in a very, very long time. this album made me cry. it is dark and ethereal and mysterious and mournful and subversive. it is a lament. it sounds like long lost music that she found in an old chest in a dusty attic and has brought to light, to life. it’s very english. i can’t say enough good about this album. i’m not going to talk to any of you again until you own it. thinking about the songs on this album is giving me goosebumps. thinking about what else i can say in support of this album’s brilliance is giving me goosebumps. you don’t need to hear anything else for awhile, just this. pj harvey, ‘let england shake’.