Passive, preening pop music is passé – what with Kendrick Lamar’s compelling To Pimp A Butterfly soundtracking America’s resurgent Civil Rights movement and David Bowie’s Blackstar alluding to humanity’s spiritual void. Polly Jean Harvey, too, is attuned to the zeitgeist with her ninth album, The Hope Six Demolition Project (THSDP).
Since 1992’s debut, Dry, Harvey has been cast as a…
