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Is This Desire?

by Pj Harvey

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Overall Rating: 2.5320 Is This Desire? is ranked overall as 2.5320 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 2.8000 Is This Desire? has an avg. critic score of 2.8000 out of 4 stars

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Yahoo! Music

It's weird, but all of the worst aspects of PJ Harvey 's work are what bring her the grandest accolades. Last time out with To Bring You My Love she caught the Stooges ' rhythmic pummel but reduced herself in scale by falling back on bogus Nick Cave bible imagery and lame blues cliches; then she got patted on the back for making such progress. ...more

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Retreating from the limelight after the tour for her acclaimed third album, To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey became something of a recluse, appearing only on her colleague John Parish's Dance Hall at Louse Point, as well as a Nick Cave record, over the course of the next two and a half years. ...more

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Adrian Denning.co.uk

A more luxuriously produced record here, ditching the sometimes lo-fi feel of 'To Bring You My Love' and adding former Captain Beefheart man, and occasionally former Pixies man Frank Black's keyboard player, Eric Drew Feldman. 'Angelene' opens the ...read the complete review at Adrian Denning.co.uk

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The A.V. Club

Even if, for some reason, you don't like Polly Jean Harvey's music, you have to acknowledge that she's never made the same album twice. There was 1992's intense, oft-acoustic Dry ; 1993's intense, Steve Albini-produced, abrasively punk-rock Rid Of Me...read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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