Uh Huh Her by PJ Harvey

Uh Huh Her, PJ Harvey's sixth studio album, came out on Island on 31 May 2004, the follow-up to Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, the record that had won her the Mercury Prize. She spent two years writing, recording and producing it herself and played every instrument apart from the final drums, which her longtime collaborator Rob Ellis supplied; she hadn't gone it alone like that since 4-Track Demos in 1993.

It sounds like it: raw, scratchy and close to the bone, with "The Letter" snapping and snarling and "Shame" smoldering. Some reviewers grumbled about the production, but most were warm, and it earned a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. It also became her highest-charting album in the US, peaking at 29 on the Billboard 200, though it never matched its predecessor's staying power. On the eight-month tour that followed she even played a title track that never made the record.

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