The Dark Lady of Dorset: Polly Jean Harvey
Stephen Dalton, NME, 1998
WHAT FORM will Lady Darkness take today? Slogan-smeared butch bootgirl? Ditch-dwelling hobgoblin? Cauldron-stirring sorceress of seething blues alchemy? Spectrally thin bride of Frankenstein? Cock-rocking voodoo sex queen?
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