PJ Harvey
Dorset, England
The War Songs
There's dirt under fingernails here. Soil from Dorset, blood from war zones she visited with camera and notebook.
She went to Afghanistan, Kosovo, Washington D.C. — not as tourist but as witness. Came back with *Let England Shake* and *The Hope Six Demolition Project*. Songs that scratch at you, that won't let go.
The melodies are pretty. Almost folk songs. But underneath: the horror. The casual violence. The bodies.
Let England Shake (2011)
Pj Harvey - The Devil (From The Basement, 2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=To_OYNoxdcQ
PJ Harvey - Berlin 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKzF-yeowTc