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Let England Shake
Rock · 2011 · 12 tracks · 40m

Let England Shake

PJ Harvey

A spectral folk-rock exploration of war and national identity. High-register vocals and autoharp melodies create a beautiful, unsettling view of the English landscape.

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It's like a beautiful, haunting history book played on an autoharp in an old church.

A hauntingly beautiful and detached observation of historical trauma and national identity.

Let England Shake · vs · PJ Harvey
Autumn Walk+4.0σ

Autumn Walk saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 40m
01
Let England Shake
3:09
02
The Last Living Rose
2:21
03
The Glorious Land
3:35
04
The Words That Maketh Murder
3:46
05
All and Everyone
5:40
06
On Battleship Hill
4:08
07
England
3:11
08
In the Dark Places
3:00
09
Bitter Branches
2:30
10
Hanging in the Wire
2:42
11
Written on the Forehead
3:40
12
The Colour of the Earth
2:34
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring contrast of the upbeat autoharp melody against the gruesome imagery of soldiers falling like 'lumps of meat' in track 4.
The haunting use of the 'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)' sample that creates a disorienting sense of place in 'Written on the Forehead'.
The sudden, mournful bugle call that pierces through the rhythmic drive of 'The Glorious Land'.
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