The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

these clips are tantalizing.
All & Everyone is a new favorite

Patti Smith promotes "The Words That Maketh Murder" (would be nice if she got the title of the album right!) on her website.

http://www.pattismith.net/news.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

shirley manson, patti smith, does polly needs some press agent or PR? i dont think so LOOOOOOOOL

head's_bullet wrote:shirley manson, patti smith, does polly needs some press agent or PR? i dont think so LOOOOOOOOL

Haha, seriously! It's all just TOO AWESOME.

Like many here, I pre-ordered the iTunes (USA) version to get the new B-side. Then, today I pre-ordered the vinyl with an amazon.com giftcard I received by my employer, for simply filling out a questionnaire. I am set, and SOOO excited! Now I just need to avoid listening to clips, AND/OR reading spoilers. It's OFFICIAL, a brand new SOLO PJ HARVEY ALBUM is on its way!

- J

is this record being released as just one version? i mean is there a deluxe edition? on amazon in the states i see just the cd lp mp3 versions
i mean one with a booklet . etc?

revenire wrote:is this record being released as just one version? i mean is there a deluxe edition? on amazon in the states i see just the cd lp mp3 versions
i mean one with a booklet . etc?

I was hoping on an edition with a bonus DVD containing the short film, but it does look to me that there'll be only the simple one cd version.

(I hope they don't add the bonus dvd to the cd in a couple of months )

revenire wrote:is this record being released as just one version? i mean is there a deluxe edition? on amazon in the states i see just the cd lp mp3 versions
i mean one with a booklet . etc?

in France, a digipack version is available

http://recherche.fnac.com/Search/Search ... bmitbtn=Ok" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

my gawd this album sounds effin great.

Polly_Jean_Cave wrote:Patti Smith promotes "The Words That Maketh Murder" (would be nice if she got the title of the album right!) on her website.

http://www.pattismith.net/news.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From a Patti Smith interview in the Guardian UK:

....... "listening to Polly Harvey's new song – she has this new song, The Words That Maketh Murder – what a great song. It just makes me happy to exist. Whenever anyone does something of worth, including myself, it just makes me happy to be alive. So I listened to that song all morning, totally happy." Her face lights up, her eyes shine. And I think that the joy she finds in these things, the searching for them, the openness to them, the wanting to do them herself, are, finally, so much more interesting than being held to any creed; more interesting, more inspiring, and far more profound.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2 ... -interview" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Quite the compliment coming from an(other) uncompromising true artist.

sanvean wrote:

Polly_Jean_Cave wrote:Patti Smith promotes "The Words That Maketh Murder" (would be nice if she got the title of the album right!) on her website.

http://www.pattismith.net/news.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

From a Patti Smith interview in the Guardian UK:

....... "listening to Polly Harvey's new song – she has this new song, The Words That Maketh Murder – what a great song. It just makes me happy to exist. Whenever anyone does something of worth, including myself, it just makes me happy to be alive. So I listened to that song all morning, totally happy." Her face lights up, her eyes shine. And I think that the joy she finds in these things, the searching for them, the openness to them, the wanting to do them herself, are, finally, so much more interesting than being held to any creed; more interesting, more inspiring, and far more profound.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2 ... -interview" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Quite the compliment coming from an(other) uncompromising true artist.

That is a beautiful compliment. I had an inkling..because this material seems to be you know..right up Patti's alley; that she would be praising "Let England Shake" upon release. She's started early though.

I was actually going to post this myself, but you bet me to it. haha

Hey, I don't know if someone has posted this before
a cover frebuary 2011 for "Modzik"



http://automaticdlamini.blogspot.com/20 ... -2011.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

^ I need this magazine. I need it right now. That picture is awesome, can't wait to see what the other pictures look like!

This is an article from NPR in which Seamus Murphy briefly describes the 12 short films, Words That Maketh Murder in particular.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/ ... er?ps=cprs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The film for "The Words That Maketh Murder" is one of a series of 12 shorts to accompany the 12 songs that make up PJ Harvey's forthcoming album, Let England Shake. The album is a dense world of Polly's vision, but what interested me most was exploring the eccentricity and enigma of England. The present exists in a complicated relationship with the past and England's island status, and her relationship to her land, geography and tradition is fundamental to the country's psyche. Contemporary England springs from colonial adventures, military ambitions and industrial prowess. It is also shaded by fading power and its military role in modern geopolitics. To open myself up to a country I live in but rarely shoot, I took a road journey around England. I approached it as I would a foreign country, traveling wide-eyed with minimal equipment — light and alone. I documented life first-hand in classical reportage style, using available light and real-life situations, this time with sound and pictures. I normally have the still silent image as my universe. I photographed, directed and produced the films myself, and worked with editor Sebastian Gollek in Berlin to complete the project. The ballroom scene from Blackpool is one of my favorites; it has what I hope for in any project, to find the extraordinary in the ordinary and to be ambiguous enough to allow personal interpretation. I am not trying to deliver a message. Just showing what I saw, how I saw it and, sometimes, how I would like it to be.