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PJ Harvey: Is This Desire? (Island)

Everett True, Melody Maker, 26 September 1998

IT NEVER rains, it pours. The release of Is This Desire?, PJ Harvey's fifth album, comes hot on the heels of releases by such former press darlings as Liz Phair, Courtney Love, Juliana Hatfield and Julie Ruin (Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna).

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