Review of Kristian Leontiou's 'Some Day Soon' album - Tiscali Music Reviews

Album release date: 31st May 2004

Polly Jean returns, after the success of her stunning Mercury Prize winning 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea', with her seventh, and most accomplished, album yet.

The bizarrely titled 'Uh Huh Her' dispenses with much of the pop gloss of her previous effort and, instead, opts for cranking up the guitars and laying the dirt on thick.

Not that this should concern fans though, because this is a blistering return to the manic genius of early PJ Harvey records, and all the better for it.

Harvey has spent time in the company of stoner rock kingpin Josh Homme whilst working on his 'Desert Sessions' and the influence is clear for all to hear.

The feeling of sand-blown desolation sweeps throughout this album from first single 'The Letter' through 'The Pocket Knife', 'The Life And Death of Mr. Badmouth' and 'Cat On The Wall'.

It's not all QOTSA menace though, elsewhere 'Who The Fuck?' snaps in prime Polly aggressiveness whilst 'No Child Of Mine' is a short but sweet pop song.

'Uh Huh Her' is a fabulous return for one of Britain's finest female musicians.

Although a step away from the sound that made PJ Harvey a household name, this album manages to prove that there is so much more to come from this brilliant artist.

"Polly Harvey exists in her own self-charted waters...there's enough here to show her journey is still in forward motion." Mojo ***

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