The Garden, a PJ Harvey Discussion Site

Tim de Lisle in today's Mail on Sunday Review:

'Artistically, Adele was matched by another British female. Eight albums into a hefty career, PJ Harvey has made her masterpiece with Let England Shake, a worthy winner of this year's Mercury Music Prize. It has all the ramshackle charm of the new folk scene and much more originality, as Harvey invents her own genre: sophisticated protest skiffle.'

Quick round-up so far:

#1 Uncut
#1 Mojo
#1 BBC Music
#1 The Quietus
#2 Q
#4 The Skinny
#8 Stereogum

A couple more:

#1 NME
#47 Rolling Stone

(The Words That Maketh Murder ranks #4 in NME's list of top 2011 singles)

#3 CLASH
http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/the-t ... f-2011-5-1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

#4 Time Entertainment
http://entertainment.time.com/2011/12/0 ... s-of-2011/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And, vote for your favorite on NPR!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/ ... =fb&cc=fmp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.metacritic.com/feature/music ... ;article;2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

No link available, but I just found out that 'Let England Shake' tops the Sunday Times' best album of 2011 list.

#1 in OOR (ear) Dutch Music Magazine

Critics' #1 album of the year in Finnish music magazines Rumba and Sue. And #2 in Soundi magazine.

#1 Sunday Times (as reported at PJHarvey.net)
#3 Gigwise

http://www.nme.com/nme-video/why-pj-har ... 3085774001" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Words That Maketh Murder is #58 on Pitchfork's top 100 tracks. They sure like Beyoncé over there. They'll post the top 50 albums by the end of the week.

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lis ... of-2011/5/

#2 spinner
http://www.spin.com/articles/spins-50-b ... page=0%2C9" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

spin, not spinner:)