Band: PJ Harvey
Album: Let England Shake
Best song: “This Glorious Land” is amazing and kind of scary.
Worst song: “Hanging in the Wire,” while still pretty good, is the weakest of the record.

A note: In a fit of real goal making, I had intended to write about Let England Shake soon after writing about the Kinks’ Arthur (or some other of the Kinks’ similarly Anglocentric records [which is probably all of them]). But, life intervened and I wanted to spotlight my favorite albums of 2011. So, here is the first. I already wrote about the other. Maybe I’ll get to Arthur soon. But probably not. Continue reading →