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Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

by Pj Harvey

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Overall Rating: 3.3783 Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea is ranked overall as 3.3783 out of 4 stars
Avg. Critic Score: 3.3210 Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea has an avg. critic score of 3.3210 out of 4 stars

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea Rank 3 Reviews

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Wall of Sound
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea has to rank as a work more musically accessible than her early material and more emotionally direct than her later stuff. It's an intriguing song cycle that stands up to -- and in fact, demands -- repeated ...more
Adrian Denning.co.uk
Whoa!! I'll repeat that it case you missed it the first time. Whoa!! Now this is good stuff. I don't know what the hell happened, but suddenly Polly makes the album of her life. Well, so far at least. Forget the 'textures' and 'interesting' ...more
HOB.com
The combination of bombastic musings and ethereal compositions is not simply a grab bag of past accomplishments, or a recycling of what works, but a record that yields a wholly different result: An easy sounding album, upbeat and surprisingly positive ...more
Q Magazine
The swampy exotica that was draped around both 1995's To Bring You My Love and '98's Is This Desire? has been forgotten: as proved by the likes of Big Exit and the pleasingly frantic Kamikaze, the dominant sound is that of a three-piece garage band, ...more
Sonicnet
She has always been a good songwriter -- experimental, dynamic, probing -- but here she demonstrates that she has the potential to be a truly masterful one. With newfound clarity and restraint, and with her usual wit, she examines the ways in which we ...more

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Rolling Stone
The happiest-sounding album she's ever made.... it may also be the best. While her austere sonic signature remains, the vocals are discernibly more relaxed, the tunes welcoming and even expansive. ...more
Rolling Stone
I know it's impolite to put it this way, but sometimes getting laid can really be good for a person. On the recorded evidence -- with no claim to any lowdown on Polly Jean Harvey's actual private life, a mystery as closely guarded as the whereabouts ...more
All Music Guide
The allegories and metaphors of her previous work are replaced with direct, vulnerable lyrics, and the album's production polishes the songs instead of obscuring them in noise or studio tricks. ...more
All Music Guide
During her career, Polly Jean Harvey has had as many incarnations as she has albums. She's gone from the Yeovil art student of her debutDry, toRid of Me's punk poetess toTo Bring You My LoveandIs This Desire?'s postmodern siren; onStories From ...more
Village Voice
It embraces rock guitar again with the same gulping pleasure with which Harvey is for once embracing her man. ...more
Dot Music
This time around Polly's drama school project is playing a Rock Star, and therefore this must be a Rock Record. And from the opener 'Big Exit', a simplistic, effective stomper so swathed in echo that she seems to be singing from the bottom of a pit, to ...more
Billboard
Harvey's first five discs were startlingly complete conceptions. "Stories From The City" shows the same genius -- only in fits and starts. ...more
Yahoo! Music
First things first, so let's make it clear that Polly Jean Harvey looks absolutely great on the sleeve of this album, sporting cool shades and a huge handbag as she crosses a busy city street. And it's by no means irrelevant to emphasise that ...more

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