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| | PJ Harvey: Uh Huh Her [2004] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review |
 | | Uh Huh Her, her follow-up, is the dark-winged shrike to Stories' glorious bird of paradise: it inverts its predecessor's bright, clean production for a raw, stark sound, just as Harvey pulls back Stories' effusive vocal delivery, twisting that album's often exuberant emotional arc to more familiar territory: inward, reflective and occasionally brooding. |
 | | But if Uh Huh Her doesn't rise to the level of Harvey's best work, it does possess a grim, unvarnished beauty; a beauty that, while it might repel a few of the fans she gained with Stories, capably rewards devotees of her earlier, unburnished and uncompromising works. |
 | | That inner-directed bent is aptly reflected in Uh Huh Her's dynamics: Although Harvey enlists Evelyn Isaac for backing vocals and brings back Stories' mixer, the oddly monikered Head, this is clearly a one-woman production. |
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