Wednesday, December 1st 2010
News: PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey Introduces ‘Written On The Forehead’
The new PJ Harvey album has been high on our list of albums we’re looking forward to in 2011, but this new track has us scratching our heads a bit.
The jam has its endearing qualities, but the world music angle is quite the departure from her more recent work. The sweetness of the vocal is undermined by the repeated refrain, “Let it burn,” and while we’re all for a bit of cheery pyromania, it’s a strange bird of a tune that confirms we don’t really know what we’re in for when Let England Shake drops next year.
Listen to Written On The Forehead to draw your own conclusions:
PJ Harvey’s eighth studio album Let England Shake is set for release on February 15, 2011. It was recorded inside a church in Dorset, England with assistance from producer Flood and musicians Mick Harvey and John Parish.
Let England Shake tracklist:
01. Let England Shake
02. The Last Living Rose
03. The Glorious Land
04. The Words That Maketh Murder
05. All and Everyone
06. On Battleship Hill
07. England
08. In The Dark Places
09. Bitter Branches
10. Hanging In The Wire
11. Written On The Forehead
12. The Colour Of The Earth
my head is full of fuck.
That was unexpected. Sounds great though.