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White Chalk - PJ Harvey
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80 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critics What's this?

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8.6 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 68 Ratings

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  • Summary: The British singer's latest album was produced by John Parrish and Flood.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 38
  3. Negative: 1 out of 38
  1. Slant Magazine
    100
    White Chalk, wholly self-contained and uncompromised, is a work of literary depth and complexity.
  2. Blender
    60
    Refining the spare sound of her last studio album "Uh Huh Her," she herein presents an 11-part song cycle about loss, longing and wandering bereft through the moors. [Oct 2007, p.108]
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  3. NOW Magazine
    20
    The painful White Chalk is either a studio experiment gone horribly wrong or a crafty bit of career self-sabotage by a sensitive artist who'd rather make sculptures in the desert than play pop star.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 34
  3. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. JK
    10
    It sounds like PJ's plumbed the depths, and instead of wondering what's really down there like she did in Uh Huh Her, this time she's landed and walked around and serenading the darkness she's always threatened to meet in the past.… Expand
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  2. P23
    10
    Superb!
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  3. DamonMitchell
    10
    I haven't had my heart so beautifully broken in a long time. This feels like the end of a trilogy in "Stories from..." she was in love with a boy and America, in "Uh Huh Her" the love affair was over but she had enough anger and fire to spit about it, in "White Chalk" the fire is out and it's an empty place where what's left really resonates.… Expand
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