PJ Harvey "Rid of Me" (1993)
Polly Jean and her eponymous trio had been touring hard on the back of
their debut "Dry". In the meantime, things weren't totally hunky dory
for Harvey. Her relationship had broken up and her place at a College
of arts and design was no longer to be held for her. PJ suffered a
nervous breakdown.
That stress and angst comes out in these raw, howling tracks, mostly
consisting solely of guitar, drums and vocals with occasional bass. PJ
chose punky, no-nonsense producer Steve Albini to helm the majority of
the album. Albini's unconventional placement of microphones created a
drum sound that Harvey enthused sounded just like standing right in
front of the drums.
An odd duck on the album was "Man-sized (sextet)" with its discordant string arrangement.
PJ broke up the trio after this and moved onto recording as a solo artist.
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