Any PJ fans here? Her new album the Hope Six Demoltion Project is released this Friday. It's quite controversial because of the political content, but the songs I've heard from it sound good so far.

Yes..fan from way back. I heard some of the new clips online and they sound good..looking foward to her new CD.

I have been a big fan of her up until White Chalk. I guess political PJ Harvey is not for me. I did not like Let England Shake and the songs from her new album are more of the same. Polly takes herself way too seriously these days. I miss everything that made her music so great back in the day: the humour, the passion, the sexuality and the rawness. She is much better when she sings about personal things than about politics. Others have done that way more convincingly before her.

theplejades said:

I have been a big fan of her up until White Chalk. I guess political PJ Harvey is not for me. I did not like Let England Shake and the songs from her new album are more of the same. Polly takes herself way too seriously these days. I miss everything that made her music so great back in the day: the humour, the passion, the sexuality and the rawness. She is much better when she sings about personal things than about politics. Others have done that way more convincingly before her.

I'm not a fan of White Chalk or Let England Shake, but the new songs from this album seem better than from what I've heard.

PJ has always been a fairly serious artist, so I don't see that radical a change. I don't mind political songs. I like personal songs too, but it's nice to have some variety in the topics of songwriting.

theplejades said:

I have been a big fan of her up until White Chalk. I guess political PJ Harvey is not for me. I did not like Let England Shake and the songs from her new album are more of the same. Polly takes herself way too seriously these days. I miss everything that made her music so great back in the day: the humour, the passion, the sexuality and the rawness. She is much better when she sings about personal things than about politics. Others have done that way more convincingly before her.

Yeah I can definitely agree with this, she was amazing up until she became a bizarre British folky nationalist(apart from the track The Last Living Rose, which for some reason I really like), then she lost my interest, although I'm always eager to see what see does next, this new album seems fairly promising but hardly a return to the glory days of Rid Of Me and To Bring You My Love imo, but hopefully I'll be proven wrong

Didn't know she made a video about DC. And good for her for calling Ward 7 a shithole. She should go to Baltimore one day. Not sure I like the song though. And I doubt anyone will see or care about this.

3rdeyedude said:

Didn't know she made a video about DC. And good for her for calling Ward 7 a shithole. She should go to Baltimore one day. Not sure I like the song though. And I doubt anyone will see or care about this.

I don't think she's actually calling it a shithole. She's using that ironically as how other people see it, not that how it actually is.

She may not be a mainstream Top 40 artist, but she has a good sized audience. Her albums usually debut in the Top 10 in the UK and Europe. So it's not true to say no one will see or care about it. Her fan base will.

I love this song. It has a great pop hook. It's actually surprisingly pop and accessible compared to some of her other work. It would be a radio hit back in the 1990's when radio still played rock/alternative artists.