The resounding vigor of her live performances, eruptions of sometimes abrupt and sometimes subtle rock, often combining a certain mystical component and a powerful sexual aura, has contributed to make British Polly Jean Harvey one of the essential figures of popular music in the last three decades.
Polly Jean Harvey is one of the most genuine, ungovernable and essential figures of contemporary popular music. During the nineties she resized the teachings of Patti Smith, punk and early indie rock with a versatile sequence of indispensable works, with which she became a driving force of the first order in international rock. Albums like the irate "Rid Of Me" (1993), the sinuous "To Bring You My Love" (1995), the twilight "Is This Desire?" (1998) or the accessible "Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea" (2000) built an unparalleled career, which was continued during the present century with the spectral ballads of "White Chalk" (2007) and the neoclassicism of the acclaimed "Let England Shake" (2011) and "The Hope Six Demolition Project" (2016), respectively inspired by the history of England and his trips to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC. The latest sample of his ability to regenerate his discourse is the sensational "I Inside The Old Year Dying" (2023), an introspective work, again with producer John Parish as his main ally, which exemplarily modulates a narrative inspired by his childhood and adolescence in Dorset (UK), and which adds new material to his thrilling live performances.
