PJ Harvey
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Biography
[Edit]During the early-'90s alternative rock explosion, several female singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few were as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of three albums, Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a twisted theatricality. At the outset of her career, she led the trio PJ Harvey, which delivered her stark songs with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon, as typified by the 1992 debut effort Dry. Following the noisy, uncompromising follow-up, Rid of Me, the trio fell apart, and PJ Harvey became the sole property of Polly Harvey. Her next record, 1995's To Bring You My Love, became her mainstream critical breakthrough, confirming her status as one of the cornerstone figures of '90s alternative rock.
Harvey grew up on a sheep farm in Yeovil, England, where she was raised by her quarryman father and her artist mother. As a child, she learned how to play guitar and saxophone, and when she was a teenager, she played in a variety of bands as a sideman. She formed PJ Harvey in 1991 with bassist Steve Vaughan and drummer Robert Ellis, and the trio recorded its debut record for under $5,000. The band signed with the British indie label Too Pure and released "Dress" that fall. "Dress" became a indie rock sensation, as did its follow-up, "Sheela-Na-Gig," with both singles receiving lavish praise in the U.K. music press. Although Harvey was a reluctant interviewee, she cannily used the press to her advantage, whether it was through her candid interviews or startling, occasionally disturbingly sexy photo sessions, which subverted traditional concepts of female sexuality.
PJ Harvey's debut, Dry, was released in spring 1992 to considerable praise; it was distributed in America by Island Records. The trio followed it with an extensive tour, culminating with an appearance at that summer's Reading Festival. Shortly after the tour, Harvey moved to London, where she nearly suffered a nervous breakdown due to the extraordinary pressure and expectation surrounding her second album. The group hired former Big Black frontman Steve Albini (Pixies, Breeders) as the producer of their second album, Rid of Me. Albini imposed his trademark noisy, guitar-heavy sound on the record, which mirrored its harder-edged themes. Rid of Me was a major critical success and expanded Harvey's cult greatly. She supported the album with a tour featuring herself in a fake leopard-skin coat and a feather boa, signaling her developing interest in theatricality. At the end of the year, Harvey released 4-Track Demos, a collection of her original versions of the songs on Rid of Me.
Following the Rid of Me tour, Ellis and Vaughan parted ways with Harvey, and she recorded her third album as a solo artist, augmented by producer Flood, bassist Mick Harvey, and guitarists John Parish and Joe Gore. Harvey developed a richer, bluesier sound with the expanded band, and the resulting record, To Bring You My Love, was hailed as a masterpiece by many critics upon its February 1995 release. Thanks to considerable press attention, as well as strong support from MTV and modern rock radio for the single "Down by the Water," To Bring You My Love became a moderate hit, entering the U.S. charts at number 40. Harvey spent all of 1995 touring the album, and spent the following year in relative seclusion. During 1996 she was relatively quiet, only appearing twice on record: once in a duet with Nick Cave on his Murder Ballads album — the pair were reportedly romantically involved — and later on Dance Hall at Louse Point, a collaborative album that found her teaming up with John Parish. Is This Desire? followed in 1998. Two years later, Harvey reunited with Ellis and Mick Harvey for Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, which returned to her earlier, more aggressive style and was inspired by her six-month stay in New York City in 1999.
The album won the 2001 Mercury Prize, making Harvey the first female winner of that award. After extensive touring in support of the album, Harvey split her time over the next two years working on new material and collaborating with likeminded friends and contemporaries. She appeared on Gordon Gano's Hitting the Ground, Giant Sand's Cover Magazine, and John Parish's How Animals Move, but Harvey's most prominent collaboration was with the Queens of the Stone Age side project the Desert Sessions. She performed on more than half of 2003's Desert Sessions, Vols. 9-10, including the single Crawl Home. That summer, she also performed at the V Festival, previewing tracks from her new album, which she claimed was close to being finished. The album, Uh Huh Her, appeared in summer 2004, coinciding with another string of tour dates, including British and European festival appearances at Glastonbury, T in the Park, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and Spain's La Primavera festival. Stateside, Harvey was scheduled to join the revived Lollapalooza festival for select dates, joining Morrissey and Sonic Youth on the main stage. Upon the cancellation of that festival, however, she mounted a solo tour of the States with select opening acts. Three years later the ever-evolving musician released White Chalk, her first piano-based album. She then resumed her partnership with John Parish for another collaborative project, A Woman a Man Walked By, which arrived in 2009. For 2011's Let England Shake, Harvey took a more political and less personal approach to her songwriting, drawing on current events to add a fresh approach to her work with Parish and Mick Harvey.
Title: Bad Sisters (Original Series Soundtrack)
Artist: PJ Harvey, Tim Phillips
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: All About Eve (Original Music) (Original Soundtrack)
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Uh Huh Her (U.S. Version)
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: You Come Through
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: That Was My Veil
Artist: John Parish, PJ Harvey
Genre: Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Title: The Peel Sessions 1991 - 2004 (US Release)
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Dance Hall at Louse Point
Artist: PJ Harvey, John Parish
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: This Is Love / You Said Something
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Title: Black Hearted Love - Single
Artist: PJ Harvey, John Parish
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: Dry / Demonstration (Limited Edition)
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock
Title: 4-Track Demos
Artist: PJ Harvey
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: Vagrant Sampler 2012
Genre: Alternative
Title: September Songs (The Music of Kurt Weill)
Genre:
Title: Amateur
Genre: Alternative
Title: Trigger Happy T. V.: Soundtrack To Series 2
Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, House, Deep House, Trance, Hip Hop/R&B, Jazz, Rock, Alternative Rock, Folk Rock, Indie Rock, New Wave, Punk, Pop, Pop Rock, Synth Pop, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Back To Mine: Adam Freeland
Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, House
Title: Back To Mine: Orbital
Genre: Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Electronica, House
Title: UK Rock [Seleccion 2011]
Genre: Club/Dance
Title: Help EP
Genre: Downtempo, Electronica, Hip Hop/R&B
Title: A Flowerdance Collection For VeryCd
Genre: Rock
Title: Paris Bar (CD2)
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist April 2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist July 2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist June 2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Navigatorz Fresh!! Indie Playlist March 2011
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Title: Bernard Lenoir L'Inrockuptible
Genre: Electronica, Electro Rock
Title: Batman Forever (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Only You - Romantic Ballads & Songs (CD1)
Genre: Pop
Title: Radio Gaga Vol. 07 - Pleasure And The Pain
Genre: Rock
Title: Rock Top 600 Vol. 3 (CD2)
Genre: Rock
Title: Rock Top 600 Vol. 5 (CD2)
Genre: Rock
Title: NME Top 500 Songs Of All Time (01 Al 100 Tracks) (CD2)
Genre: World Music, Pop
Title: NME Top 500 Songs Of All Time (CD5)
Genre: Rock
Title: Compact Disc Club: Red Angel (CD4)
Genre: Rock
Title: Arte Summer Of 90's (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap, Rock, Pop
Title: Metal-Hard Rock Covers 291
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Metal, Death Metal, Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal
Title: 20 Jahre Rolling Stone
Genre: Rock
Title: De Afrekening 03
Genre: Alternative
Title: Spex Musik Zur Zeit 35 Aus 35
Genre: Rock
Title: New Music This Week (2016.03.31) (CD3)
Genre: Garage, Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk, Indie, Dubstep, Trap
Title: Rock 90s Vol. 2 (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Alternative
Title: Rock 90s Vol. 3 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Pop, Alternative
Title: Rock 90s Vol. 4 (Original Soundtrack) (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk, Pop, Alternative, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: L Esprit Inter 06: Le Son De France Inter
Genre: Downtempo, Electronica, Electropop, Indie Pop
Title: De Tijdloze Vol. 3
Genre: Rock, Alternative, Indie
Title: Romantic Nights 2017 (CD2)
Title: Indie Rock Playlist Best Of (2016-2017) (CD2)
Genre: Indie
Title: Best Of British: 90s
Title: MTV Rocks: Indie Revolution 3CD (CD3)
Genre: Garage, New Wave, Pop, Synth Pop, Alternative, Acoustic, Indie
Title: 100 Greatest Alt-Rock Anthems (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: 100 Greatest Female Voices 2020 (CD2)
Genre: Pop
Title: Women Of Rock 2020
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, Alternative
Title: 90s Alternative
Genre: Emo, Grunge, Hard Rock, Power Pop, Post Punk, Heavy Metal, Indie
Featuring albums
Title: The Best Of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Artist: Nick Cave, The Bad Seeds
Genre: Alternative Rock, World Music
Title: A Flowerdance Collection
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Post Punk, World Music, Pop, Alternative
Title: Brokedown Palace (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: The Devil's Candy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Shallow Hal (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Artist: Soundtrack
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack