I am so very behind the times when I need Rolling Stone to tell me that a tune from PJ Harvey’s forthcoming piano-based record Under The Chalk has leaked onto the internet a month ago.
What the hell?
Luckily, the internet forgives and provides. Check out a rather transfixing YouTube performance of “When Under Ether” and/or stream the leaked track below, and then head to Philly-based mp3 blog Some Velvet Blog to check out the cover and tracklist of Chalk.
I really like it. I’m looking forward to the huge, inevitable number of Tori comparisons PJ’s record draws, as if she is suddenly professing to be a pianist; the entire point of her is that every album is completely different.
(Also discovered in my mad PJ hunt – The Yellow Stereo. Very good music writing, and taste.)
Totally OT, but have you seen or heard of a movie called Once? I think you’d like it, esp. since you’re a musical type.
Hey Flickr Guy – your out of town fans would appreciate more geographical descriptions where appropriate. Also, your sweetheart is gorgeous. RE: Once – I’m not musical at all. If possible, I’m negatively musical. I took guitar lessons for 3 years and you could tell no difference from when I started. I like the Once singer’s crazy intensity. The the movie is a good story, too and cool the way they use the music.