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PJ Harvey is one of the most important rock figures of all time. We've ranked her entire catalog, from 'Dry' to 'I Inside the Old Year Dying.'

Thirty years on from the release of her debut album Dry, we examine and rank PJ Harveys studio collections from worst to best

JM Synge: Nature, Politics, Modernism by Seán Hewitt: original, powerful synergy A rich account of three key but diverse topics convincingly held in one critical frame John Millington Synge by John Butler Yeats. Photograph: DeAgostini/Getty Images Anthony Roche ISBN-13: £75.00 April 16th, 2021 was the 150th anniversary of the birth of John Millington Synge. Synge had a tragically short life, succumbing to Hodgkin’s Disease just shy of his 38th birthday. But his achievement was consid...

Produced by Flood and John Parish and featuring collaborators Jim White and Eric Drew Feldman, White Chalk charted at number 11 in the U.K. and received extensive critical acclaim upon its release in September 2007, including 5 stars from the Observer Music Monthly and praise from Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone, Village Voice and more. The reissue was cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of John Parish.   WHITE CHALK  is repressed on vinyl. Out June 25 on UMe/Island. Pre-...

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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 year...