The drumming on Dress is absolutely key to that song's success, so good.

Album Rating: 4.0

ITS ALRIGHT



THERES NO TIME



SO ITS ALRIIIIIIIIIIGHT

Album Rating: 4.0

Damn, another creepy review on sputnik where the reviewer spends half the word count objectifying a female artist instead of reviewing their art. Site needs a clean up!

Album Rating: 4.5

First paragraph aside, I think it is pretty decent. Dry is fueled with sexuality, themes of domination/submission, which can’t be omitted when talking about the album.

…unless you write something like the other review, track-by-track, focused on drumming and generic descriptions, bit even that one mentions “sexy vocals”, which is no less problematic.

So I guess the task with music like this would be to refrain from adding personal (first-person? third-person?) perspective, because it is then a huge task not to relate to Polly Jean when hearing these songs. Whether you’re sexually attracted to women or men, you’ll end-up sounding like you’re objectifying (and probably you will do so, to some degrees).

But hey, I’m not the review expert here, we have some real aficionados in da house!

Album Rating: 4.0

First para was kinda what I was getting at — hyperbole aside, I think you can critically discuss representations of sexuality in art without expounding on your desire to fuck the artist. It’s far from the most egregious example on the site though — that’s probably KILL’s review of Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes.

Album Rating: 4.5

“I think you can critically discuss representations of sexuality in art without expounding on your desire to fuck the artist” - exactly, that was also my point, but in this particular case, I found the call for a “clean up” exaggerated, the rest of the review does a good job in discussing the album.



Haven’t read the Kate Bush review, will take a look if it hasn’t been removed (yet?)

Album Rating: 3.5

I'd rather see KILL's poopoopeepee posting than comments like the one by KittensandScorpions on page 1.



Doing a PJ Harvey discog run today, Fountain and Hair are first favourites from this one.