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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 Album Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

Her strongest work since 1995's To Bring You My Love. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

With a bracing, droning rock-guitar jangle, Harvey sings: "Look out ahead/ I see danger come/ I wanna pistol/ I wanna gun/ I'm scared baby/ I wanna run/ This world's crazy/ Give me the gun. ...more

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. ...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

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Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

If Nirvana and Robert Johnson are rock's essence for you, so's To Bring You My Love. But if you believe the Beatles and George Clinton had more to say in the end, this could be the first PJ album you adore as well as admire....read the complete review at Village Voice (Consumer Guide)

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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...read the complete review at Wall of Sound

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Slant Magazine

PJ Harvey'sStories From the City, Stories From the Seacould have been calledStories About Falling in Love in New York. On her last two albums,To Bring You My LoveandIs This Desire?, Harvey chose to speak of love through dense mythological metaphors....read the complete review at Slant Magazine

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musicOMH.com

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea is Polly Jean's sixth album. It's incendiary.It would matter not one jot if The Bad Seeds'Mick Harveyhadn't been on hand with his instruments, if Flood hadn't offered advice on production or if Thom Yorke...read the complete review at musicOMH.com

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