Review of the album.

"Is This Desire? is, for all intents and purposes, a collection of bleak short stories."

"Polly Jean and John Parish had 400 English punters steaming up the small Bristolian pub..."

A collection of Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea reviews.

"PJ Harvey's fourth studio album, Is This Desire? is the sound of an artist and band achieving ultimate confidence and maximum performance simultaneously."

PJ Harvey Inherits the Earth at the Hammerstein Ballroom

"PJ Harvey is a formidable new voice in modern rock but it's hard to see who will want this beyond the most rapacious fan."

"Like her closest antecedents, Patti Smith and Throwing Muses, Yeovil's PJ Harvey isn't easily definable."

"Boasting 12 tracks yet clocking in at just a shade over 40 minutes, Is This Desire? is one of the most artfully truncated missives of bleakness and pain to have emerged from a jewel box or Digipack since the dawn of CD."

"It starts with the musical equivalent of an itch. Sure enough, just when you've keyed into the mood, the track explodes in your face with a massively over-cranked, woofer-and-tweeter-threatening bombardment of noise."

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