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“The Words That Maketh Murder” is the first single taken from PJ Harvey’s forthcoming album Let England Shake. It was released digitally this week by Island Records with a 7″ single due out February 7 backed with an exclusive track “The Guns Called Me Back Again“, recorded during the Let England Shake sessions. With every new PJ Harvey album, she sheds her skin and adopts a new face, with a completely new style and focus falling into place. With almost 20 years making music under her own name, still no two albums have sounded quite the same. Mixing gospel with reggae and a big band sound, “The Words That Maketh Murder” sees PJ Harvey playfully pushing the eccentric envelope and coming up with her most extraordinarily offbeat single to date. Let England Shake is sure to follow the same genre-defying path. Look for the album, amidst the love-sick and love-less, on February 14.

Webcuts rarely needs an excuse to post a picture of PJ Harvey, in fact we’d happily do it as often as possible, though it makes more sense to do so when the lady herself has something to promote. Fans should be well aware that Miss Harvey has a new album (her 8th) in the wings, daringly titled Let England Shake due for release in the UK on February 14. That date sounds familiar to me… not sure why. Going for a rustic, English feel, the album was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset with long time collaborator Flood, with assistance from John Parish and Mick Harvey.

We took at poll at Webcuts, and PJ Harvey is most definitely not a woman one of us would walk by.

With a new album about to be released on March 30 in the intriguingly titled A Man A Woman Walked By, it’s hard to believe that it’s been over a decade since Dance Hall At Louse Point, PJ Harvey and John Parish’s first collaboration released in 1996. Arriving a year after Harvey’s most commercially successful [...]

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