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PJ Harvey Wins Second Mercury Prize
PJ Harvey’s eighth studio album Let England Shake (released through Island Records) has been awarded the 2011 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year.
Let England Shake is Harvey’s fourth Mercury nomination and second win. She was previously nominated for Rid of Me (1993) and To Bring You My Love (1995), and almost ten years ago to the day, on September 11th 2001, she accepted the award for Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, from her hotel room in Washington DC.
Let England Shake was released internationally on February 14th, 2011 and is the fasted selling record of Harvey’s career, with the UK’s NME magazine 10/10 review describing it as “arguably her most brilliant album to date”.
Recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset in the UK with long time collaborators Flood, John Parish and Mick Harvey, Let England Shake was mixed by Flood and co-produced by PJ Harvey, Flood, John Parish and Mick Harvey.
PJ Harvey’s 2001 Mercury win marked her as the first woman to have been awarded the prize. Ten years on, Harvey can now lay claim to being the first person to have won for a second time.
PJ Harvey is currently on a UK tour with her live band (John Parish, Mick Harvey and Jean-Marc Butty) and will play the O2 Apollo in Manchester on September 8th before heading to the Isle of Wight this Saturday for a performance at Bestival 2011.
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