PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

(My Rating: 3/5)
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Let England Shake is PJ Harvey’s new and 8^th album recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset England in collaboration with many well-known musicians like Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. It is known that she began concentrating on writing lyrics for the album before setting the words to music. That’s why some called it as protest album and you can hear that she has something want to say about her native country. It’s kind of album more suitable for English, but not really for foreign people like me. 
 

I am not really like this album in the first listening especially for the wide contrast compared to her last fine weird folk album …..as seeing many positive reviews on her new album, I gave it another serious listening and the feeling is a bit better, but still not really like it…..just feeling that it’s an over-polished too-well-produced punk album performed by a no-more-outrageous mature woman and the result is a bit tasteless and emotionless……I think punk stuffs should have that raw and rough anti-establishment spirit!!