PJ Harvey White Chalk 45rpm LP

Reissue on vinyl of the seventh PJ Harvey studio album White Chalk. The album was produced by PJ Harvey, Flood and John Parish and originally released in September 2007. White Chalk features the singles "When Under Ether", "The Piano" and "The Devil". Reissue is faithful to the original recording and package, with cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of original co-producer John Parish.

PJ Harvey's seventh album White Chalk was a pleasant shock to the system when it was released in 2007. Gone were the slashing guitars and slinky grooves of her previous work. In came spare folky instrumentation (zither, harp, banjo) and piano, and Harvey straining to hit notes and wailing in a wavering falsetto. Combined with lyrics that reveal a deep well of regret and loss at the core of these songs, the music chills the skin like sinking into a cold milk bath. The vinyl reissue campaign of Harvey's discography continues with White Chalk and an alternate version of the album in demo form. The original LP sounds as good as ever thanks to the thoughtful mastering of Jason Mitchell and John Parish, who cut the lacquers at 45 RPM. This helps stretch the short album over two sides of wax and beefs up the album's minimalist low end. As ever, the demo takes of these same songs feel as fleshed out as the finished product. Harvey always has such a precise understanding of where her songs are going. All her collaborators, which on White Chalk included Parish, Dirty Three drummer Jim White and ex-Pere Ubu member Eric Drew Feldman, had to do was flesh out the details under her watchful eye.