White Chalk | Loppylugs

Submitted by Richard Norbury on 16 February 2013 - 10:03pm

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Artist:

PJ Harvey

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Track-listing:

The Devil*Dear Darkness*Grow Grow Grow*When Under Ether*White Chalk*Broken Harp*Silence*To Talk to You*The Piano*Before Departure*The Mountain

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Spotify-URL:

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Short-title:

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Meeting-date:

Thursday, 14 May 2009

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White_Chalk

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reviewed by

Richard Norbury

The album on which Ms Harvey tries to learn to play the piano on. Possibly some of the songs are too similar to each other and too bleak. But the strong songs are great.
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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

1-4-7

A hugely depressing but musically uplifting album. Very minimal, though the power of her vocals and the piano makes one feel as though there is more going on than there actually is. Her voice is an instrument in itself. It's a struggle to listen to this in one go, as the later tracks start to pass by unless maximum attention is given - definitely not easy listening.
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reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

Please don't reproach me / for how empty / my life has become

4-11

It's an echoey, warbley, ocassionally shrill, slightly off tune sort of sound she makes, that's lacking in both bass and variety - her voice, as well as her piano playing. It's to be commended that she put down her guitar and tried something different but to do pretty much a whole album based around her piano playing would really require her to have something a bit more to offer than a sustain pedal, some slowly cycling patterns and her standard morbid self seflections. Overall this felt like hard work and I'm speaking as really an absolutely massive PJ Harvey fan.