PJ Harvey Let England Shake
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fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I for real don't get the hate for hope six

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I like her later work fine, I advocated for stories even. New album just feels a bit shapeless and samey, reminds me of white chalk in that respect

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2023


60399 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

lmfao White Chalk is easily one of the least shapeless/samey albums in her discog

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Sure whatever you say

rabidfish
July 11th 2023


8697 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

God damn man I think you're cool but that's just a plain ol' bad take lmao

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

That white chalk is samey or hope six is good?

rabidfish
July 11th 2023


8697 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

A lil bit of this, a lil bit of that

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ok I'll give it another listen, but I never return to white chalk, I always find it opens strong and finishes weak

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2023


60399 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

9. "The Piano"

10. "Before Departure"

11. "The Mountain"



literally what, that's her best run of songs since the Wind thru Catherine

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

All the arguments I see against hope six always seem pretty weak tbh, like really what is so bad about the album

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Honestly Johnny I don't trust anyone who rates white chalk over let England shake soz

Demon of the Fall
July 11th 2023


33773 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

yeah I don't LOVE White Chalk either and although the new one is definitely decent, I seem to be getting some of the same 'this is nice enough but am I really connecting' issues popping up thus far

Hopefully something changes (re either album)

ArsMoriendi
July 11th 2023


41033 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

White Chalk is like 2nd best PJ





Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2023


47613 Comments


Hope Six is like starting a garage band in high school and getting your geography teacher to talk about The Social Issues TM on top. lame af on release and just aged worse since

White Chalk is fucking great

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

i wish my geography teacher could paint as vivid a picture as ministry of defence

ArsMoriendi
July 11th 2023


41033 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Hope Six has lame lyrics usually but the music writing direction is honestly as strong as previous work

JohnnyoftheWell
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2023


60399 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7

one of the most (tbh sure) high schoolish parts of Hope Six is the way it sequences its observations of destitution in different nations interchangeably, as though their broadest commonalities ('poverty bad' ass album, yeah sure lol) should somehow transcend the stark differences in material and historic circumstances

comes off as unfocused and underthought, and the muzak is largely average fare

Sowing
Moderator
July 11th 2023


43956 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I liked Hope Six but it did feel like she laid things on pretty thick

Demon of the Fall
July 11th 2023


33773 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I've not actually heard Hope Six, maybe I'll incorporate it as an aside to my necessary White Chalk revisit

fogza
Contributing Reviewer
July 11th 2023


9805 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

"one of the most (tbh sure) high schoolish parts of Hope Six is the way it sequences its observations of destitution in different nations interchangeably, as though their broadest commonalities ('poverty bad' ass album, yeah sure lol) should somehow transcend the stark differences in material and historic circumstances"



lmao all around the world punk bands are releasing songs with zero fucking specificity and somehow this observational album is supposed to supply hundreds of years of context?



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