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- Record Label: Island
- Release Date: Mar 31, 2009
- Summary: PJ Harvey and her producer John Parish team up again with a new album produced by Flood.
- Record Label: Island
- Genre(s): Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 22 out of 27
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Mixed: 3 out of 27
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Negative: 2 out of 27
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In the wake of three questionable albums, shtick is a relief, not just because it's really great shtick but because after all these years we're happy to be clear about whether she's performing or expressing herself.
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It all hangs together brilliantly, suggesting the mutual understanding of two artists at the peak of their powers.
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Such a musical mind-meld, so expressive of both artists' perspective, is rare.
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Although it's as uncentred as 2004's "Uh Huh Her," this album broadcasts confidence rather than confusion.
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Her latest also finds her at her most gleefully deranged.
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Though A Woman a Man Walked By does have strong moments with longtime collaborator Parish, exercises in atonality like 'Pig Will Not' feel less womanly than regressively adolescent.
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Under The RadarA Woman A Man Walked By is a side project in the worst sense of the term; a slight diversion that's really for Harvey completists only. [Spring 2009, p.66]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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HannahMApr 27, 2009absolutely wonderfully fantastic
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gabrielgApr 1, 2009I love Polly!
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JaredJApr 13, 2009
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