PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
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Artist: PJ HarveyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1995-02-28
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- To Bring You My Love
- Meet Ze Monsta
- Working For The Man
- C'Mon Billy
- Teclo
- Long Snake Moan
- Down By The Water
- I Think I'm A Mother
- Send His Love To Me
- The Dancer
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Free Music Review: A dark and ambient masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE was PJ Harvey's third release and honestly I didn't know what to make of the album at first. I had heard that the band had split up and she was going it alone, with help from producer Flood (!). In a way I was prepared for a different sounding PJ Harvey but looking back I guess I had no idea HOW different. I had just come off quite a high with her first two albums, the excellent RID OF ME and the beautiful debut DRY. When I first caught sight of the cover I thought, "Waaahhh!" It looks like our dear lil Polly is all growns up, and quite the force to be reckoned with, fierce in that red dress.
Gone are the days of the raw Albini produced sounds, this album has got a major blues vibe to it. I had heard the single "Down by the Water" and seen the video but yet I still wasn't prepared for this record. I wasn't prepared to fall in love with another PJ album, especially one that's such a departure from her beloved earlier works. But of course I did fall in love again and I think this album is her strongest work to date, both in songwriting and in use of instruments. Polly explores a darker range of topics with her lyrics this time around, especially in reference of a religious nature. Plenty of guitar, lush organs and standout vocals make for this dark, dense record. The ten tracks will take you on an intense musical journey and stretch your imagination, leaving you in awe of the complex yet spare sounds and its brutal melodrama will bring you to your knees.
We start off with the title track, "To Bring You My Love." This song to me is the only song reminisce of ROM on the record. It's a bit raw but in a moody kind of way. As soon as you hear Polly's voice you'll immediately sense this is a powerful song. What I love throughout this record is the usage of her vocals, clear and urgent, Polly's singing is impeccable.
"Meet Ze Monsta" is a crazy restless song. It's all over the place, I imagine a very strong woman trying to fight a "big black monsoon" but of course she loses and eventually gives in to suicide to "meet ze monstra." Over a quarrel with her lover. Alls fair in love and war.
"Working For The Man" is a strange, strange song. In a good way. It is very sinister, PJ's somber vocals very effective in lending to the eerie effect of the song. I think this song is about a psychotic serial killer who preys on women and insists he's doing well because he's "working for the man." You know, HIM.
"C'mon Billy" is bluesy folk rock at its best. I love the acoustic guitar, the emotion the strings bring out of me and the desperate yearning of PJ's voice here. A very heartfelt plea from a very desperate woman for the father of her son to return and lay with her on golden cornfields for days on end.
"Teclo" is stranger still. I read in a magazine that PJ said Teclo is someone's name. I would've never guessed. Hearing this song makes me conjure images of angels, halos and God. I dunno why.
"Long Snake Moan" is awesome! I swear this song helps me curb my road rage. I shout along to the lyrics and instantly feel better, it's like a stress reliever of a song. This song makes me feel powerful and important because I can work voodoo and make mere mortals and even "God above, All drunk on my love..."
"Down By The Water" is the single off the album and one that actually did well on the charts, I think. It's a very catchy song, with the heavy steady keyboards, playful bells and the malevolent chorus, "Little fish, big fish swimming in the water/Come back here man gimme my daughter."
My favorite song on this album has got to be the very dark, "I Think I'm A Mother." Reason being, well, frankly I just don't understand the freakin' song and I long to find out! I'm fascinated with this song, from the slow opening of the guitar and the building of the drums to the nonchalant-ness of her voice as she sings something about wanting to have an abortion because she despises the mother-in-law. Wait, what?! I know, hence the fascination.
"Send His Love To Me" is very similar to "C'mon Billy" in that it's very folksy. A very heartfelt, beautiful song.
"The Dancer" is without a doubt the most passionate song I've ever heard. I dare anyone to come up with a more beautiful, soulful song! The swaying of the strings, the gut-wrenching
wails of her voice and the killer lyrics just leaves me begging for more:
He came riding fast like a phoenix side a fire flame
He came dressed in black with a cross bearing my name
He came bathed in light and the splendor and glory
I can't believe what the Lord has finally sent me
He said "Dance for me, fanciulla gentil"
He said "Laugh for awhile, I can make your heart feel"
He said "Fly with me, touch the face of the true God"
And then he cried with joy at the depth of my love...
Oh Lord, how that song kills me. And what a lovely way to end an epic of an album. At first I wasn't sure how to feel about the album but a listen is all it took for me to be very impressed indeed. 5 stars all the way.
To Bring You My Love Poster
Mega-rare pressing of this long deleted and sought after 2 CD set. Includes a bonus disc with nine b-sides released off the album.Island Records.
After fumbling around with producer-from-hell Steve Albini on Rid of Me (1993) and signing with U2 manager Paul McGuinness, Polly Jean Harvey is ready to live up to her lethal early promise at last. With its growling bass tones, "Meet Ze Monsta" sets the stage early on as Harvey explores her feminine psyche with an intensity and raw power unheard since Patti Smith's heyday. Unlike the terminally inconsistent Smith, however, Harvey plots a brilliant course through slippery laments ("Working for the Man"), corrosive testifying ("Long Snake Moan"), and fuzz-toned menace ("Down by the Water"). Skeptics who think Harvey can't outgrow her art-punk base are advised to cue up the flamenco-inflected, string-caressed "Send His Love to Me." --Jeff Bateman
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