PJ Harvey s
Uh Huh Her was a powerful force for critic Laura Snapes. Seeing this woman I so admired derail a linear path to greater success and greater approval – the de facto path as far as teachers were concerned – was revelatory, she writes. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR/Getty Images
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PJ Harvey s
Uh Huh Her was a powerful force for critic Laura Snapes. Seeing this woman I so admired derail a linear path to greater success and greater approval – the de facto path as far as teachers were concerned – was revelatory, she writes. Photo Illustration by Renee Klahr/NPR/Getty Images
How PJ Harvey s Uh Huh Her Taught Me To Carve My Own Path
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There’s something to be said for those rules about first impressions. On first hearing
PJ Harvey, many moons ago in some smoke-filled loft at a debauched summer house party as the sun was lifting the twilight outside, a sense of awe entered the room as the fuzz of something of its time had us by its hooks. It was a little bit Tricky, a touch Portishead, had a smudge of grunge, a sniff of something sexy and something a bit androgynous; it gripped everyone in the room.
Fast forward a few years and after much critical acclaim – which built an ever-growing, discerning and somewhat obsessive fan base – the same girl, now a lady, wins the Mercury Music Prize and is thrown from her cult-rock pedestal into the wolf pit of the masses with, debatably, her most commercial album to date. Then – maybe it was a finger in the limelight, or maybe just a natural progression, or perhaps a result of exposure – 2004’s long-player