Dry - demos

"First released in 1992, PJ Harvey's reissue of her debut album, Dry - Demos, sees her music stripped back to demos in its most raw and unfiltered version yet ... Whilst Dry could be seen as an album of Harvey's weakness and inability to accept the end of an intense relationship, her ability to make herself vulnerable and open to the pain she feels in the mourning of the relationship is so brilliantly articulated and resonates among so many naïve and innocent women. PJ Harvey's honesty and raw sound throughout Dry is what makes it an album that continues to stand the test of time".

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"Harvey er en af sine generations helt store rockkunstnere, og flere af hendes halvfemserplader stikker op som nogle af årtiets mest interessante album ... Universal Music ikke alene genudgiver de gamle plader på vinyl, men samtidig lader dem ledsage af separate plader med demooptagelser. Dry - demos er den første, hvor tidlige, flossede versioner af albummets sange indvarsler Harveys helt særlige, på én gang hudløse og brutale udtryk ... i 1991 indspillede [hun] demoerne til debutalbummet Dry".

"Nascent brilliance from Dorset's star-in-waiting; with unseen photographs ... "Dress" or "Joe" might not have the album's brutal thunder, but they still charge and shift the atmosphere around them thanks to the supernatural self-possession of Harvey's young voice (almost Natalie Merchant-like on a spare, lilting "Happy And Bleeding"). There's an odd lightness to a tape-hiss version of "Sheela-Na-Gig", yet all the dynamic architecture is in place; "Oh My Lover" and "Joe" show just how much weight these songs were capable of bearing in their final form. Embryonic greatness, maybe, but still great".