“I’ve lived away a few times, in London for a while, in New York, in LA for three years, but I always end up coming back,” she told me over a cup of tea in a restaurant of a local hotel, whose cozy quaintness was endearingly stereotypical. Polly Jean Harvey was born and raised in Dorset, and unlike many stars that flee to the bright lights of big cities, she is happy to remain there. PJ Harvey’s album, Let England Shake, is a lament for a country that has lost its way. There is a specter of that grievance in the work of another Dorset denizen. When you come to Dorset, a region in the southwest England, the cab drivers complain that the things aren’t what they used to be. The full version appeared as the cover story for our print volume 2. Harvey prepares to record her new album, we decided to publish this slightly abridged version of the article about Harvey’s last album, Let England Shake, and about her friendship with Ann Demeulemeester and Patrick Robyn.
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