PJ Harvey

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.