I Inside the Old Year Dying is at the opposite end of Harvey’s musical spectrum to the muscular garage rock and massed backing vocals of The Hope Six Demolition Project. The drums and Harvey’s keening vocals are very in your face: the former recorded without reverb, so they appear to be playing directly in front of you; the latter uncorrected, with every sibilant “s” and microphone-popping “p” sound – and indeed the odd bum note – left in, giving a sense of first-take immediacy. Everything else floats somewhere in the middle-distance, a gauzy mass of fingerpicked acoustic guitar, flickers and gusts of feedback, trombone and synthesiser in which individual instruments are often hard to pick out.
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[...] It makes sense, then, that I Inside The Old Year Dying should feel both like a fresh start and a kind of culmination. Its roots stretch back into Harvey’s past work, back to Sheela-Na- Gig’s primal superstitions or To Bring You My Love’s silty blues. There are echoes of the lost girls of Is This Desire?, of the folk horror/folk memory of Let England Shake, of White Chalk’s etherised waifs and wraiths. Folklore, sex, death, love: it’s nose-to-tail Harvey.(Mojo)
Eine PVG-Revision wurde PJ Harvey noch nicht gewidmet. Dann werfe ich mal ein paar Stichworte in den Ring, welche die anderen Richter gerne aufnehmen können.
- Mein erstes PJ Harvey-Album: "To bring you my love"
- Mein liebstes PJ Harvey-Album: "Stories from the city, stories from the sea"
- Top 3 Songs: "The pocket knife", "The sky lit up", "The whores hustle and the hustlers whore"

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Die Musik von PJ Harvey konnte mich noch nie so richtig begeistern: 6,5 Punkte.
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Top 3 Songs: „Dress“, „Sheela-na-gig“, „Down By The Water“ (kenn ich halt noch von MTV)
Die beiden Vorgänger haben mich mehr überzeugt. 7,5 Punkte
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