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I've heard excellent things about PJ Harvey's new album. I can't claim to know much about her personally, but enough people whose opinions I vaguely respect have been doing their utmost to figuratively shove her down my throat.

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Open your throat and swallow. Lick up the dribble around your lips. It will be hard to top Let England Shake as Album of the Year 2011.

Though Wire tried damn hard with Red Barked Tree.

Hello, strangers




my face is finished, my body's gone and i can't help but think,
standin' up here in all this applause and gazin' down at all the young and the beautiful with their questioning eyes,
that i must above all things love myself