p j harvey Woman A Man Walked By CD

A mere 13 years after their last full-length collaboration, 1996's DANCE HALL AT LOUSE POINT, PJ Harvey and John Parish reunite for the impressively varied A WOMAN, A MAN, WALKED BY. Longtime friends and creative partners--the young Polly Harvey's very first band in the late 1980s was fronted by Parish--the duo have a long personal history together. But what's most impressive about this album is how much both artists have grown in the dozen-plus years since they last worked together at length. Seemingly free from her need to make each album a stand-alone exploration of one particular mood or musical style, Harvey embraces an atypical musical eclectisim here that ranges from noir film score jazz to folk-rock, while Parish's tunes and arrangements are richer than ever before.

Lyricist: PJ Harvey.

Personnel: PJ Harvey (vocals); John Parish (various instruments).

Audio Mixer: Flood.

Audio Remasterer: John Dent.Spin (p.79) - "Harvey morphs from rasping seductress to screaming chimera with stunning velocity..."
Q (Magazine) (p.101) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The closing 'Cracks In The Canvas' is the best of both parties: with just cracked ukulele and organ fuzz, Parish conjures up a limpid elegy for the singer's bereavement."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] joyful understanding, a quiet intuition, a compendium of the participants' pasts and presents. After nearly two decades, this man and woman still turn heads."
Blender (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Parish, a guitarist and keyboardist, has the extra chops to devise music that lurches and stomps unpredictably or floats into the ether."
Pitchfork (Website) - "Harvey has said that her collaborations with Parish give her the freedom to push into new places, and there is a sense of exploration here as she fits her words to the shapes of his songs."
Record Collector (magazine) (p.92) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "At its wildest, as on the raucous 'Pig Will Not' and the title track, Harvey sounds deranged, freed from any kind of vocal styling or even composure, shrieking and howling over Parish's blues churn."