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The musician brings her Hope Six Demolition Project on tour to rail against social ills, and confirm her status as a forceful commentatorIt’s more than 20 years since the release of PJ Harvey’s first masterpiece, and To Bring You My fancy,and five since her moment, Let England Shake. Few major artists bear so profoundly changed their themes between such peaks, and almost none of Harvey’s reach and stature are today attempting what she does: to take on the state of the world.
Perhaps that’s ceased to be a job for pop music,which long ago surrendered any claim to influence how we think approximately the world, and focused on its principal role of being a diversion from it. But that hasn’t place Harvey off, and nor should it bear. It’s one hell of a task,mind; one that takes either stupidity or nerve to assign yourself – and Harvey is anything but a fool. Where pop as a whole shrugs, she trains a fierce gaze. whether Let England Shake was obliquely a protest album – one that delved into the past to clarify; to light up the present – its contemporary companion piece, or Harvey’s latest,The Hope Six Demolition Project, is overtly so.
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Source: theguardian.com