release date: Mar. 30, 1992
format: cd
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,92]
producer: Head, Rob Ellis, PJ Harvey
label: Island Records - nationality: England, UK
Tracklist: 1. "Oh My Lover" (4 / 5) - 2. "O Stella" (4 / 5) - 3. "Dress" (live on Later) - 4. "Victory" (4 / 5) - 5. "Happy and Bleeding" - 6. "Sheela-Na-Gig" (4 / 5) (live) - 7. "Hair" - 8. "Joe" - 9. "Plants and Rags" - 10. "Fountain" - 11. "Water" (4,5 / 5)
Studio debut album by Polly Jean Harvey originally released on the independent label Too Pure and produced by Head (Mark Vernon), Rob Ellis, and PJ Harvey.
It's a strong and highly original document of Polly Jean's musical strengths into alt. rock with strong bonds to particular American proto-punk rocker Patti Smith. The album went as high as #11 on the national album chart list, and it rocketed an only 22 year-old Polly Jean Harvey way up as a new shining star of alt. rock in Britain. The album is enlisted in "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
[ allmusic.com, NME 4,5 / 5, Q Magazine 4 / 5 stars ]
