Uh Huh Her - PJ Harvey
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Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings

  • Summary: On her seventh album, a sparser affair than her 2000 effort 'Stories From The City?,' PJ Harvey produced, mixed, and played all of the instruments herself (aside from drums, handled by Robert Ellis), with some additional production from Head.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 28
  2. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. It's a near-perfect piece of art, a level of accomplishment Harvey achieves with amazing consistency.
  2. I hate to say it, but she might have finally overextended her ambition, resulting in an uneven, discomfiting album.
  3. It's truly intriguing in the way PJ albums haven't been since the commanding "To Bring You My Love" back in 1995.
  4. 60
    For an album almost four years in the making, it's frustratingly half-finished, like a series of preliminary sketches. [#27, p.142]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. vandey
    10
    this is amazing, so pure, so untouched, so honest. it is hard to describe.it is like even pj only sings and or play only one instrument, it can be enough. she again showes that, the number of instruments are not important but whether music is clever, emotional, honest. in desperate kingdom of love she just reach perfection in vocal style. she is so confident and relaxed as a musician and funny also ! it is different from everything you hear, pure original. Expand
  2. MattT
    10
    This album, on the depressed edge, is poignant, conveys a feeling of hunger and want and, sometimes pain. It's really beautiful and completely connects with me. I burned my own version and left out "Shame," "Who the..." "No Child of Mine" and "Cat on the Wall" It's still long enough and grabs me completely Expand
  3. markf
    8
    There's no way this is as expansively accesible as "Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea". That album should have quieted anyone who considered Harvey anti-pop or some such nonsense. The most interesting thing about this new album is how stripped down PJ gets while still retaining her new-found pop structures. Now, I hesitate to mention numbers instead of titles, but the credits are so damned difficult to read, I'll start by saying #8 & #10 are essential. The entire album is basically PJ playing rhythm guitar and various other instruments/percussion along with her drummer. Her voice is just as enchanting/awesome as ever, so the minimal arrangements still shine the melodies through. This must be her most mature (if not best) yet. Expand
  4. Setherb
    7
    A couple of songs kick ass, but it's not my fave. I like the way it was produced - it kind of reminds me of U2's Discoteque. Most people wouldn't consider that a compliment, I know. But hell, you can't argue taste. PJ is, and always will be, at the top of my "10 Women, Who If I Have The Chance, I Have Prior Permission From My Girlfriend To Have Any Manner Of Sexual Intercourse With And Not Get In Any Trouble At All" list. This album has plenty of good moments to reccommend it. My biggest complaint is how long it took to make. She needs to hurry the hell up with the next one, dammit! Expand

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