PJ Harvey: Let England Shake 180g Vinyl LP

PJ Harvey: Let England Shake [ISLAND]

Barcode number: 602507254025

C$36.99

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PJ Harvey's 2011 Mercury Prize winner Let England Shake on 180g vinyl, with "The Words That Maketh Murder," "The Glorious Land" and "The Last Living Rose."

Why you'll love it

This Island reissue is pressed on 180g vinyl with a printed inner sleeve. Let England Shake won the 2011 Mercury Prize, making Harvey the first artist to win it twice, and was named album of the year by 16 publications.

This edition

180g vinyl
Printed inner sleeve
Download card included
Lyrics included

About the album

Most songwriters reach for a guitar; PJ Harvey reached for an autoharp and a history library. She spent two and a half years writing the words first, reading about Gallipoli and gathering testimonies from soldiers and civilians, then set them to music and recorded the lot in five weeks in a church in Dorset. Harold Pinter and T.S. Eliot were on her reading list, and it shows in the words.

John Parish, Mick Harvey and Flood helped her produce it, with Harvey drawing the artwork herself. "The Last Living Rose" is a strange, tender love letter to England, "The Glorious Land" borrows a bugle call, and "The Words That Maketh Murder" pairs a jaunty tune with images of the battlefield. "On Battleship Hill," "England" and "Written on the Forehead" carry the album's haunted, folk-tinged glow through to "The Colour of the Earth."

It also took the Uncut Music Award and the Ivor Novello Award for album of the year. A war record you can whistle, which is a trick very few people have ever pulled off.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. Let England Shake
2. The Last Living Rose
3. The Glorious Land
4. The Words That Maketh Murder
5. All And Everyone
6. On Battleship Hill

Side B
1. England
2. In The Dark Places
3. Bitter Branches
4. Hanging In The Wire
5. Written On The Forehead
6. The Colour Of The Earth