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label: Island, 2009
contact: www.myspace.com/pjharvey
genre: country/folk/alt
rating: 7
After the dark, monotonic White Chalk PJ strikes back with an album made in cooperation with John Parish. A Woman a Man Walked By takes us back to the fun creative songs charged with heavy poetic load that this two artists had accomplished before.
Once again, this pair offer us a short album where you have musical experiments that go from the use of a wide range of country instruments to the weird variations in PJ’s voice (keep an eye to the doggy voice on Pig Will Not).
A Woman a Man Walked By is full of structure richness. Just compare the songs in between them and you won´t find two alike. It starts with a clear water love song, then moves on to fun country, followed by dips of lo-fi desperation
and ending with a violent feminist assault. From this small pack of songs you will mechanically retain about three in you memory and without realising it you will start singing it in the streets (probably making up the lyrics).
All these elements result wonderfully in an punkish folk genre. The thing is that we get the impression of having heard this before and indeed we did. Just go back to your shelves and look for Dance Hall at Louise Point and you will get the same arrangements, relisten Rid of Me and you will encounter the same vocals. Plus the poetic charged lyrics talk about the same themes that Polly Jean has been singing for more than twenty years now. Still the cities, still the manly woman and still the desperate love.
In the end, you’ll be happy for the return of this productive pair, in a month or two you’ll forget all about it, throw it to the growing pile of PJ’s albums and just wait for her next big work.
Once again, this pair offer us a short album where you have musical experiments that go from the use of a wide range of country instruments to the weird variations in PJ’s voice (keep an eye to the doggy voice on Pig Will Not).
A Woman a Man Walked By is full of structure richness. Just compare the songs in between them and you won´t find two alike. It starts with a clear water love song, then moves on to fun country, followed by dips of lo-fi desperation
and ending with a violent feminist assault. From this small pack of songs you will mechanically retain about three in you memory and without realising it you will start singing it in the streets (probably making up the lyrics).All these elements result wonderfully in an punkish folk genre. The thing is that we get the impression of having heard this before and indeed we did. Just go back to your shelves and look for Dance Hall at Louise Point and you will get the same arrangements, relisten Rid of Me and you will encounter the same vocals. Plus the poetic charged lyrics talk about the same themes that Polly Jean has been singing for more than twenty years now. Still the cities, still the manly woman and still the desperate love.
In the end, you’ll be happy for the return of this productive pair, in a month or two you’ll forget all about it, throw it to the growing pile of PJ’s albums and just wait for her next big work.
PJ Harvey, John Parish:
Polly Jean Harvey - lyrics, vocals
John Parish - guitars
guests:
Eric Drew Feldman - bass on Black Hearted Love, keyboard on April
Carla Azar - drums on Black Hearted Love and April
Giovanni Ferrario - guitar on Black Hearted Love, bass on April
Jean-Marc Butty - drums (live shows in support of A Woman a Man Walked By)
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tracklist:
1. Black Hearted Love
2. Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen
1. Leaving Kalifornia
2. The Chair
3. April
4. A Woman a Man Walked By
5. The Soldiers
6. Pig Will Not
7. Passionless Pointless
8. Cracks in the Canvas
Polly Jean Harvey - lyrics, vocals
John Parish - guitars
guests:
Eric Drew Feldman - bass on Black Hearted Love, keyboard on April
Carla Azar - drums on Black Hearted Love and April
Giovanni Ferrario - guitar on Black Hearted Love, bass on April
Jean-Marc Butty - drums (live shows in support of A Woman a Man Walked By)
10 / 38:02
tracklist:
1. Black Hearted Love
2. Sixteen Fifteen Fourteen
1. Leaving Kalifornia
2. The Chair
3. April
4. A Woman a Man Walked By
5. The Soldiers
6. Pig Will Not
7. Passionless Pointless
8. Cracks in the Canvas
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