Biography

Several female singer/songwriters rose to prominence during the early '90s, but few were as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential songwriters of the '90s, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a twisted theatricality. At the outset of her career, she led the trio PJ Harvey, who delivered her stark songs with bruisingly powerful, punkish abandon. Following the noisy, uncompromising Rid of Me, the trio fell apart, and PJ Harvey became the sole property of Polly Harvey. Her next record, 1995's To Bring You My Love, became her mainstream breakthrough. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Top Tracks

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• 50ft Queenie

• A Perfect Day Elise

• A Woman A Man Walked By/the Crow Knows Where All The Little Children Go

• Angelene

• Beautiful Feeling

• Black Hearted Love

• C'mon Billy

• Down By The Water

• Dress

• Driving

• Easy

• Good Fortune

• Hanging In The Wire

• Happy And Bleeding

• Is That All There Is?

• Let England Shake

• Long Snake Moan

• Man-size

• M-bike

• O Stella

• Oh My Lover

• One Time Too Many

• Pig Will Not

• Pocket Knife

• Reeling

• Rid Of Me

• Shame

• Sheela-na-gig

• That Was My Veil

• The Desperate Kingdom Of Love

• The Devil

• The Last Living Rose

• The Letter

• The Mountain

• The Sky Lit Up

• The Words That Maketh Murder

• This Mess We're In

• To Bring You My Love

• Victory

• Water

• When Under Ether

• White Chalk

• You Come Through

Discography

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• Let England Shake

  Island / Vagrant

  2011

• A Woman a Man Walked By

  Universal Island Records Ltd.

  2009

• White Chalk

  Island

  2007

• Uh Huh Her

  Island

  2004

• Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

  Island

  2000

• Is This Desire?

  Island

  1998

• Dance Hall at Louse Point

  Island / UME Imports

  1996

• To Bring You My Love/The B-Sides Album

  Island

  1995

• To Bring You My Love

  Island

  1995

• Rid of Me

  Island

  1993

• Dry

  Island

  1992