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Dance Hall at Louse Point is a 1996 album by John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey. Parish wrote and played the music, while Harvey sang vocals and wrote the lyrics. The pair had been musical collaborators for several years before making this album together – as a teenager growing up in rural England, Harvey contributed saxophone, guitar and backing vocals to Parish’s band Automatic Dlamini before forming her own band in 1991. Parish later served as co-producer, guitarist, percussionist and keyboard player on Harvey’s 1995 album To Bring You My Love, and would also feature heavily on her 1998 album Is This Desire?.

The album was viewed by many PJ Harvey fans as a minor side project – perhaps due to the top billing accorded the more obscure Parish and her own accreditation as Polly Jean Harvey rather than the more widely-recognised PJ Harvey name – and consequently it sold more poorly than any of her solo releases, entering the UK charts at #46 and barely denting the U.S. Billboard charts at #178. It yielded only one single, “That Was My Veil”, which spent a week at #75 in the UK charts. Harvey later admitted that she let Parish handle all promotional duties for the record because she was exhausted following a year of intense promotional activity for her own To Bring You My Love album in 1995. Reportedly, bosses at Harvey’s Island Records label feared the avant-garde venture was “commercial suicide”, despite it winning generally positive reviews: Entertainment Weekly opined, “This is ‘deep’ music in every sense; total immersion is recommended”, Musician reckoned “The results are as engaging as they are disturbing.

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timmooo wrote:
last week

cant believe the new album is getting overlooked by all the critics top lists for '09.

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AvrKadavr wrote:
18 days ago

Live "Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen" is killing me *_*

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SeanK262 wrote:
27 days ago

The Chair is really cool

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yolie81 wrote:
last month

Made in heaven.

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Confessions87 wrote:
last month

April is my favourite on the new album. Great vocals.

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kandee9 wrote:
October 2009

Every song in this album is brilliant!

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AndresAnkh wrote:
October 2009

i love Cracks In The Canvas

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macijikralj wrote:
October 2009

way good!

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thisismenow wrote:
October 2009

#1 and #2 just as they should be. <3

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gal4enja wrote:
September 2009

Oh... New album is Ok!!! )))

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googleeyes wrote:
September 2009

oh yes, absolia, me too. that's what drew me here to this box to shout the very same. I think Dance Hall At Louse Point is a million times better than AWAMWB, but maybe I just haven't given it enough of a chance.

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absolia wrote:
August 2009

i am so in love with 'rope bridge crossing'

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MrPsychedelia wrote:
August 2009

Cześć *_*

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ninjabilli wrote:
July 2009

Thank you for making such a beautiful album. Always makes me feel uplifted after a shitty day.

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eletricalmonkss wrote:
July 2009

Don't know why I put it off for so long but the album is excellent

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revil452 wrote:
June 2009

increible, uno de los mejores discos del año

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marathonienne wrote:
May 2009

Bonjour, nous avons un gout musical assez proche , voir ma bibliothèque j' ai découvert d'excellents titres sur ton blog super vraiment. marathonienne

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kabliukai wrote:
May 2009

At last! ;)

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megique wrote:
May 2009

yeah, auto correcting feature is good, but the album here should contain all of the tracks - not only five which are avalaible to listen :/

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ImACultHero81 wrote:
May 2009

Oh and I'm glad about this auto correcting feature, I have them under PJ Harvey & John Parish, just so it's easier to go from listening to pj to these on my ipod, but better to have all the scrobbling going to 1 name to get more accurate charts

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