PJ Harvey - "When Under Ether"

PJ Harvey plays piano? She does now. As Wire stated in their recent cover story on her: "Not only has PJ Harvey taken up the piano and adopted exploratory tactics for reconnecting with the primal roots of her earliest music, she's also ended a decade of wandering by coming back to the white chalk Dorset countryside of her youth..."

It should come as no surprise that the name of her upcoming album (to be released on the 25th of September) is White Chalk and that the sounds contained in the first song released, "When Under Ether", find Polly Jean looking back to the fragile sparseness of her earlier records. There is a large amount of power in PJ's hushed songs, power that has impacted me in the past in ways not many other, if any, musicians have been able to. Frankly, To Bring You My Love changed my life, and on White Chalk she's again working with Flood and John Parish. Excited? I can't wait.

Listen:
"When Under Ether"

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