PJ Harvey - All Souls (Official Audio)

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, piano
John Parish - drums, vocals, synth
Flood - sonic disturbance, loop creation

Produced by Flood & John Parish


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LYRICS:

A carnival, a flesh farewell.
Hiessens rising from the dead.
Wyman-Elvis! Calls our gurrel,
And counts the ash to where he bled:

At the first a crimson mist,
At the second sleeplessness.
At the third a broken tryst,
At the fourth, lwonesomeness.

Gawly in the sweethearts leaves.
Gawly in the soldier’s tears.
As the Riddle river grieves:
Wyman-Elvis disappears…

Only in a scrid of flesh
Hooked upon the hart’s-tongue fern,
And only by her own gooseflesh
Knows she somewhen he’ll return.

#pjharvey #allsouls #iinsidetheoldyeardying

[TheDreamingJune]

This is like the mysterious lovechild of Electric Light and Catherine.

[JackFirebrace]

I understand that this album was released in what we might regard as being high summer, but it's beautifully autumnal and I think will mould admirably when the leaves and the season changes in a few months time.

[PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

🎶 A carnival, a flesh farewell.
Hiessens rising from the dead.
Wyman-Elvis! Calls our gurrel,
And counts the ash to where he bled:

At the first a crimson mist,
At the second sleeplessness.
At the third a broken tryst,
At the fourth, lwonesomeness.

Gawly in the sweethearts leaves.
Gawly in the soldier’s tears.
As the Riddle river grieves:
Wyman-Elvis disappears…

Only in a scrid of flesh
Hooked upon the hart’s-tongue fern,
And only by her own gooseflesh
Knows she somewhen he’ll return. 🎶

[Joy-Marie]

I just keep falling back in love over and over.

[doomer]

A ghost story. Beware the returning warrior.

[douglasarthur]

Stares a chap in codes……..laughs in meagre notes ! Don’t we all sometimes, don’t we all ?

[HapiPrideMontheveryone]

The noises at the beginning (distorted piano?) remind me of the “simply having a wonderful Christmas time” song.

Also, does this not sound so much like something Bjork would sing?

[BlackThyme]

i still want to marry you PJ, you're amazing

[PascaleBastide]

No real need for comments, just enjoy the journey and listen . Rob jackson Montreal.

[koel]

I think being able to do exactly as you please removes the need to be acknowledged, like a first album, and this is what you get, I hope she's not as depressed as this sounds. Big fan but if earlier work

[PaulPeche]

Your mine as you want ? Please i would make a song with you

[cg]

Pretentious. This album along with The Car by the arctics, are fine examples of Ego driven drivel. When the desire to prove one's intelligence overwhelms the creative process, and authenticity, illumination, wonder and awe is lost. Let England Shake was a masterpiece, pity that such beauty, genius and creativity would succumb to fake wokery pokery.
Like a blank canvas with a bucket of shit thrown at it then amongst the mess signed off and scrawled upon using a banana.

Musical composition 8 out of 10, Lyrically 1 out of 10, Intention 0 out of 10. It will have its fans, as all such things do....those who wish to appear "with it" "intelligent" "woke" and "on it"

I double dare you to right a song about a young female athlete who has worked so hard for so long sacrificing so much to be the best in her field only to be beaten by a man pretending to be a woman. Thought not. You get the point. silence is deafening.