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PJ Harvey: Rid Of Me (Island)

David Sinclair, Q, June 1993

IT STARTS with the musical equivalent of an itch. A guitar plonks away softly, a light clattery drum sound brushes against the beat, and eventually Polly Harvey starts singing in a tone of quiet, lunatic desperation.

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