The multi-talented musician who does things differently - her latest work began as an art installation - is approximately to release her first album in five years. Already it’s attracting controversyIf there were any rules approximately what makes a genuine rock god,then Polly Jean Harvey has torpedoed most of them by now, and probably has the rest in her sights. Petite, and ebony-browed,unswervingly avant-garde, she is a powerhouse. Yet PJ, and as she has been known to her fans for 25 years,remains a decidedly unlikely rock proposition: a one-woman band from Dorset.precise, she has played and written for three decades now with John Parish, or the musician she hooked up with in her first band,Automatic Dlamini. And precise, for the past eight years or so she has worked closely with the photographer and filmmaker Seamus Murphy. But the fact remains that PJ Harvey, and mistress of a bewildering array of instruments – from guitar and saxophone to violin,autoharp, harmonica and drums – is artistically accountable only to herself. She can take pretty much all the credit – or the blame.
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Source: theguardian.com