Let England Shake

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  2011

  James

  PJ Harvey approaches war and national identity with eerie calm rather than rhetorical bombast. Autoharp, horns, and ghostly melodies give the album an unsettling folk atmosphere that makes its violence feel even more disturbing. Songs like “The Glorious Land” and “Written on the Forehead” connect historical brutality to contemporary political reality without flattening either. The album feels haunted by cycles of violence embedded deep within culture itself.