Polly's New Album: What We Know So Far

[Polly_Jean_Cave]

More Shirley Manson on Polly: (from her facebook page)

"People I would like to see more of in 2011"

-PJ Harvey: Have you heard her new song?! It's sublime!

[DearSir]

Pre-order is now available all over i-Tunes as well as 20 seconds clips, a little bit different from the previous ones.

[abovethemountain]

preview clips won't load for me still, yay!!

[Shadowboxer]

preview clips won't load for me still, yay!!

I changed my country to Italy and it worked. They're pretty much the same clips though.

[megique]

gooood i need to hear All & Everyone in full version. i'm so addicted to it, i'm listening to this 30 seconds sample like million times a day. i think these lyrics are going to be one of her best ever.

[Skinned]

strange: the label uploaded on last.fm Written on The Forehead as a single with the TWTMM cover

http://www.last.fm/music/PJ+Harvey/Writ ... e+Forehead" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PallHeima]

I listened here the preview of the songs...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... =dm_sp_alb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I like a lot the song "On Battleship hill"......sounds very very NICE!!!!:-) With "Hanging on the wire" it's,in my opinion my two favourite songs for the moment....cannot wait for the rest of the album!!!!!:-)

[soulfadelic]

At the very beginning of the Amazon sample for "England" there is a sample from this song. It's the vocal run at 0:29: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QRNgWFDVE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You can find it on this extraordinary compilation of music from Baghdad in the 1920s. I love that PJ digs this stuff! Honest Jon's puts it out (Damon Albarn's boutique label...not exactly a fan, but his taste in music is excellent): http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=33043" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Britain has a long, shameful colonial history in Iraq, so I guess she was thinking about that when she threw that in.

[gecko_me]

Hi,

Long time lurker here.

Just wondering if anyone knows whether 'the guns called me back again' will be available digitally, other than on US itunes? I've pre-ordered the CD of LES, and will buy the 7" of 'the words that maketh murder' but I really want an mp3 of it too. I don't use itunes, but is it even possible to buy stuff from the US store if I'm in the UK?

PS, Soulfadelic - that compilation looks incredible, might have to get hold of it. I'm not really a fan of Mr Albarn, but he does like and promote some interesting music to people who otherwise would probably never hear it.

john

[sau]

At the very beginning of the Amazon sample for "England" there is a sample from this song. It's the vocal run at 0:29: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9QRNgWFDVE" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

You can find it on this extraordinary compilation of music from Baghdad in the 1920s. I love that PJ digs this stuff! Honest Jon's puts it out (Damon Albarn's boutique label...not exactly a fan, but his taste in music is excellent): http://www.honestjons.com/label.php?pid=33043" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Britain has a long, shameful colonial history in Iraq, so I guess she was thinking about that when she threw that in.

Big thankyou for that, soulfadelic. If I remember rightly, Iraq had a parliament, but the British got rid of it! You have to love this one: Britain and the US helped set-up the Saudi regime back in 1921!

I can't help thinking about the journalist Robert Fisk re. Polly's new work. I've been wondering for a long time whether she has read his writings; his 'The Great War for Civilisation', in particular.

Here's one of his articles about Iraq - 'Iraq, 1917'

'They came as liberators but were met by fierce resistance outside Baghdad. Humiliating treatment of prisoners and heavy-handed action in Najaf and Fallujah further alienated the local population. A planned handover of power proved unworkable. Britain's 1917 occupation of Iraq holds uncanny parallels with today - and if we want to know what will happen there next, we need only turn to our history books...'

Rest of the long article here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/co ... 32421.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The Independent now has a page for all of his articles:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[DrDark]

I listened here the preview of the songs...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004 ... =dm_sp_alb" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I like a lot the song "On Battleship hill"......sounds very very NICE!!!!:-) With "Hanging on the wire" it's,in my opinion my two favourite songs for the moment....cannot wait for the rest of the album!!!!!:-)

Thanks for that, favorites so far:

The Glorious Land
Words That Maketh Murder
All & Everyone
England

I'd really like to hear "England" in its entirety.

[Meowth]

when will "the words that maketh murder" single be available on itunes?

btw, thanks for the clips!

[DrDark]

Anyone else notice the clips on amazon.co.uk are gone?

The tracks are there, but there's no links to click to play the samples.

[PallHeima]

Yes,it dissapeared.......don't know why :S

[purdy.thang]

I need to hear All & Everyone in full soon!