I’ve had a little more modest output over at Spectrum Culture the past couple of weeks. I reviewed a Russian film called How I Ended This Summer about a burgeoning conflict between a couple of technicians at a remote weather station. Unfortunately, the frigid terrain they moved through looked a little too much like what was outside of our Carolina windows at the time. Luckily, that’s changed.

Then this past week, I tapped into that distant part of me that stared down the copy of Dry that we received at the campus radio station nearly twenty years ago and tried to figure out exactly what to make of this new artist going by the name PJ Harvey. The new album, Let England Shake is Polly Jean’s best effort since Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, and I genuinely love that earlier effort, especially certain parts.