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I fear our blood won't rise again. It says something that Let England Shake, the album she chose to announce on the Andrew Marr Show last April – an opaque exploration of Englishness delivered in a … I just can't rate it higher than what I already have, I'm just not feeling a higher rating. Let England Shake sounds a world apart from the introspective piano confessions of Harvey’s last solo album, 2007’s White Chalk. Let England shake, weighted down with silent dead. Let England Shake is, as its title suggests, PJ Harvey's "English album". Em Another day, Bobby, for you to come home D Gm Am Come and tell me indifference Em Won won won Gm D D … Very enjoyable all the way through, and not much bad to say about this. Harvey's poetry has never been better, and her strange musical sensibilities have never served her lyrics better. Let England shake, Em weighted down with silent dead. In doing so, Harvey became the first artist to win the coveted honour twice after originally taking it home in 2001 for Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. Let England Shake is a thoughtfully conceived, deftly executed cycle of rock songs. Won't rise again England's dancing days are done. 8. Folk music across the ages has concerned itself with tales of people and their relationship to land and social pressures, and here exists far beyond politics and ideology - these being enemies of life and nature - though dealing with the painful realities of war. referencing Let England Shake, CD, Album, Dig, 2753189 A truly astonishing album. Let England Shake won the 2011 Mercury Prize, which is an annual award for the best album from the UK and Ireland. 4mo. The West's asleep. Work on it began around the time of White Chalk's release in 2007, though it is a departure from the piano-driven introspective collection of that album. 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