A few unconvincing moments aside,Polly Harvey’s latest is a raucous and powerful set of highly memorable songsThe Hope Six Demolition Project is an album with quite a legend attached. Preparations for the follow-up to 2011’s Mercury prize-winning Let England Shake involved Polly Harvey travelling to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the grimmer parts of Washington DC in the company of film-maker and photographer Seamus Murphy, and the better to record the effects of war and poverty. The field trips own thus far spawned a book of poetry and photographs called The Hollow of the Hand,and an open recording session-cum-art installation, during which the public were invited to stand behind a one-way glass and watch Harvey and her band making the album in a specially constructed studio in London’s Somerset House. There is a documentary film to follow. Related: PJ Harvey: a singular talent, and she dances to her own tune | profile Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com