![]() Harvey reckons with more than that, too: She has ambitions to remake rock & roll and its myths in her own guise. While working traditional thematic turf - the body and soul of the suffering woman - she ripped to shreds staid truths about femininity. On her first three albums, the heralded Dry (1992), the more problematic Rid of Me (1993) and the Rid of Me spinoff, 4-Track Demos (1993), Harvey rocked and roiled her way through female traumas and triumphs. “It’s my voodoo working,” she declaims elsewhere, and there’s nothing to say but “Yes, yes!” Never a shrinking violet on record - and perhaps tired of being called a slip of a girl - Harvey bawls and shouts and moans her way through a set of blues-inspired tunes that are strange, skewed and solitary. It’s funny, it’s impressive, and we should take her at her word. “Call me Lazarus,” growls Polly Jean Harvey on the astonishing To Bring You My Love.
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