Where do we start? | (Re)discover PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey has revolutionized female rock and continues to amaze with her mutations. The proof is next Saturday, when the British singer will be at Place Bell to present her latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying. A beautiful and rare visit. A look back in five discs at a unique journey.




Dry (1992)

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Dry (1992)

The rock world didn’t see this slap coming. It’s 1992, just before the grunge revolution. A little woman, as thin as a tooth, is revealed thanks to Drya gripping and brutal record drawing on blues, rock and feminist punk songs. The references are multiple, but the result is unique. Starting with this burning voice emerging from the bowels of the Earth, and her own bowels, which she exposes with fury and vulnerability, against a backdrop of power trio uncompromising. PJ Harvey was born.

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To Bring You My Love (1995)

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To Bring You My Love (1995)

Third album for the frail Polly Jean Harvey, who confirms here that she was not just a flash in the pan. On the total fringes of the Riot Grrrl movement, with which some would like to associate her, the British singer-songwriter demonstrates once again that she is in a class of her own. The sound is still rock, but the arrangements have expanded and her sonic palette has grown, as has her poetic and theatrical universe, which highlights her menacing voice. With To Bring You My LovePJ Harvey definitely comes out of the underground. In Montreal, she performs at the Olympia, while two years earlier, she played at the small Club Soda on Parc Avenue.


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