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artist: John Parish & PJ Harvey
title: Dance Hall at Louse Point
date: 1996
label: Island
genre: Alternative
rls. date: Mar/2004
tracks: 12
bitrate: 192kbps
size: 54,7 MB
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After releasing the '90s rock masterpiece To Bring You My Love,
Polly Jean Harvey deflected the immense pressure of a follow-up by
teaming with guitarist John Parish for this 1996 collaboration.
Often mistakenly credited as an appearance on Parish's record
(an artist that had never released a major label solo record during
his long career as a sideman, writer, and producer), Harvey's
contribution to Dance Hall at Louse Point is at least equal to
Parish's. Not only did the singer co-produce the record, she wrote
all the record's lyrics and Harvey's vocal performances figure very
prominently on Dance Hall at Louse Point, which was released in
America on the singer's label home Island. Artists always struggle
with follow-ups to monumental records that can become bigger than
the performers themselves. Harvey dealt with the pressure by
releasing a record that wouldn't be recognized as her own, while
she spent the customary multi-year absence after what will be
remembered as her best recording. That's not to suggest that this
is strictly Harvey's record either. Besides writing all the music
and playing virtually every instrument, Parish displays a knack for
sonic texturing that echoes Harvey's 1995 classic on tracks like
"Civil War Correspondent," with its dark organ pads providing the
perfect stage for Harvey's bold theatrics. Fans and critics heaping
praise on To Bring You My Love producer Flood might be surprised
how the Parish and Harvey-produced "Heela" heads into its own
grating, layered guitar crescendo that matches "Long Snake Moan"
with its groaning vocals and relentless slide guitars. Dance Hall
at Louse Point is in no way a strict duplication of Parish and
Harvey's prior work together on To Bring You My Love. Listeners
more appreciative of Harvey's earlier work will relish the
songstress' squeals, whispers, and howls over jangling atonal
guitar figures and blues motifs that recall Dry and Rid of Me.
Fellow members of the Bristol music "tribe," Parish and Harvey
share more than studio experience and art rock influences; they
possess uncommon instinct and a genius-level connection to rock's
bluesy, isolated, threatening soul. This collaboration records the
artists during a time when their portal to that strange entity was
at its most dilated. ù AMG Review
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01-Girl [01:28]
02-Rope Bridge Crossing [05:10]
03-City Of No Sun [02:14]
04-That Was My Veil [03:01]
05-Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool [03:03]
06-Civil War Correspondent [04:23]
07-Taut [03:14]
08-Un Cercle Autour Du Soleil [05:06]
09-Heela [03:19]
10-Is That All There Is? [05:11]
11-Dance Hall at Louse Point [02:10]
12-Lost Fun Zone [01:27]
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39:46 min
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