"This January sees Mercury Prize winner PJ Harvey make a welcome and highly anticipated return to Australia for a series of theatre performances to showcase her newest, and most critically acclaimed album, Let England Shake. The themes on the album return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli. The album they make up is not a work of protest, nor of strait-laced social or political comment. It brims with the mystery and magnetism in which Harvey excels. Of the album The Guardian wrote ""She remains one of the most thrilling and relevant musicians working today...A melodious, beautiful album, passionate and rich and alive."" Whilst The Financial Times commented that ""'Let England Shake' is the most powerful work yet by any British artist about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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