P J HARVEY Is This Desire? LP ISLAND 1998 EU orig+inner+misprint label ILPS 8076
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THIS IS THE 1998 UK ORIGINAL PRESSING on ISLAND Records. SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE. DUE TO A FACTORY DEFECT, THE LABEL ON SIDE A IS BLACK/WITHOUT PRINTINGS. The cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear BUT surface sticker mark +on rear (top right corner), mild creases on edges/corners, surface ringwear, edgewear on front right edge and rear left edge, left spine is fully readable; INNER SLEEVE in great condition (mild creases); please for details see photos (with and without flashlight). Vinyl is in EX condition (barely played) and plays wonderfully.
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P J HARVEY
PJ Harvey The most challenging singer/songwriter to emerge in the '90s, her brutally honest lyrics match well to a progression of raw musical styles. During the alternative rock explosion, several female singer/songwriters rose to prominence, but few have proved as distinctive or as widely praised as Polly Jean Harvey. Over the course of her career, Harvey established herself as one of the most individual and influential songwriters of her era, exploring themes of sex, love, and religion with unnerving honesty, dark humor, and a twisted theatricality."IS THIS DESIRE?"
1998 LP ISLAND RECORDS ILPS 8076 524 563-1 MADE IN ENGLAND ORIGINAL PRESSING SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE
NOTES: Comes with an inner sleeve with lyrics and credits. THIS VERSION: due to factory defect, the label on side A is blank/without printings
Barcode and Other Identifiers Barcode: (text) 7 31452 45631 1 Label Code: LC 0407 Price Code: PY 281 Rights Society: BIEM/MCPS
LABEL: ISLAND - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT
Catalog on cover: (spine, rear, inner) ILPS 8076 / 524 563-1 Catalog on labels: (Side B only) ILPS 8076 / 524 563-1
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): MPO ILPS 8076 A¹ MANDY THE EXCHANGE Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): MPO ILPS 8076 B¹ MANDY THE EXCHANGE
On labels: (Side B only) rim text reads "℗ 1998 Island.........BIEM/MCPS......." Island A PolyGram Company
On Inner Sleeve: Tracklist + Credits + Lyrics On Back Cover: Tracklist ℗ 1998Island Records Ltd........prohibited.
tracklisting Side A: ANGELENE - THE SKY LIT UP - THE WIND MY BEAUTIFUL LEAH - A PERFECT DAY ELISE - CATHERINE Side B: ELECTRIC LIGHT - THE GARDEN - JOY - THE RIVER NO GIRL SO SWEET - IS THIS DESIRE?
grading RECORD EX but (please, read above description) SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)
Retreating from the limelight after the tour for To Bring You My Love, PJ Harvey returned to her small hometown of Yeovil and isolated herself from most pop trends, eventually writing the material that would come to comprise her fourth album, Is This Desire? Released over three and a half years after To Bring You My Love, Is This Desire? has all the hallmarks of a record written in isolation; subtle, cerebral, insular, difficult to assimilate, it's the album where Polly Harvey enters the ranks of craftsmen, sacrificing confession for fiction. It's an inevitable transition for any artist, especially one as lyrically gifted as Harvey, and though her words are more obtuse and not as brutal, painful, or clever, she still draws some effective character sketches. Similarly, the music on Is This Desire? is hardly the immediate, blunt force that characterized her first albums, nor is it the grand theater of To Bring You My Love -- it takes its time, slowly working its way into the subconsciousness. There are a few guitar explosions scattered throughout the record, but it's primarily a series of layered keyboards, electronic rhythms, and acoustic guitars; it's so quiet that at times it barely rises above a murmur, and occasionally floats away without leaving a lasting impression. It seems to challenge the listener to accept it on its own grounds, but once you dig deeper, it winds up offering diminishing rewards...(AllMusic)
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