Let England Shake

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	Let England Shake

chronology
Let England Shake
Studio album by PJ Harvey
Publication ; (s)	February 11, 2011
Label (s)	Island Records
Format (s)	CD , LP , download
Genre (s)	Alternative rock
Title (number)	12
running time	40:15
production	Flood , Mick Harvey , John Parish , PJ Harvey
	The Words That Maketh Murder
	The Glorious Land

Let England Shake is a 2011 studio album by the English musician PJ Harvey .

Track list

"Let England Shake" - 3:09
"The Last Living Rose" - 2:21
"The Glorious Land" - 3:34
"The Words That Maketh Murder" - 3:45
"All and Everyone" - 5:39
"On Battleship Hill" - 4:07
"England" - 3:11
"In the Dark Places" - 2:59
"Bitter Branches" - 2:29
"Hanging in the Wire" - 2:42
"Written on the Forehead" - 3:39
"The Color of the Earth" - 2:33

Recording and publication

The album was recorded in April and May 2010 at Eype Church in Dorset , England .

The pre-release The Words That Maketh Murder was released on January 17th, 2011 in digital form and on February 7th as a vinyl single. The album followed on February 11th in England, on February 14th in the rest of Europe and on February 15th in the USA and Canada via Island Records and Vagrant Records in the USA.

style

Harvey named artists such as The Doors , The Pogues and The Velvet Underground as musical influences . The Rolling Stone describes the sound of the album as "Somewhere between inclined folk, ethereal New Wave and Patti Smith - Elegy " . For the first time PJ Harvey uses saxophones on an album; In addition, instruments such as autoharp or zither , mellotron and xylophone are often used. The song England even contains a sample of Iraqi music.

“The beat strategy of John Parish with his less is more fits here just as perfectly as his voice to Mick Harvey's […] and both voices, as great counterattackers, fit perfectly to Harvey's vocals, which are less multiple than before, but could still belong to several people at the same time. In this way, "Let England shake" fully exploits its potential on the one hand, but on the other hand overstimulates it in part also downright pleasurable. "

- Tobias Hinrichs, plattentests.de

In terms of content, she “ goes to court with her homeland, sings of senseless wars in distant countries, of false patriotism and national identity” ; but also stressed that she “did not want to write cheap, denouncing protest songs” and that England was only a “placeholder for every country” .

reception

The album received very good reviews across the board, as evidenced by a Metascore of 86%. This rating is an average of 42 professional reviews. Let England Shake was ranked fourth among the best rated album releases of 2011.