The Sixth Hope Destruction Project is the ninth studio album by British singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, released on April 15, 2016 on Island Records. The album is Harvey's first since his award-winning Letter Shakes Letter, released in 2011. At the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, the album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album, his fourth nominee in the category and the seventh overall nomination.
The title of this album is a reference to the HOPE VI project in the United States, "where public housing is damaged in areas with high crime rates have been destroyed to make room for better housing, but with the effect that many of the previous population could no longer afford to live there, leading to the claim of social cleansing ". The HOPE VI program is directly referenced in the opening song of the album and the second single, "The Community of Hope". This title was inspired by Harvey's trip to Washington D.C. with photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy where he was given a tour by Paul Schwartzman of The Washington Post, which directly affects several lyrics on the song. Upon release, the song provoked direct criticism from politicians who ran for council seats in Ward 7 in Washington, D.C.
Video The Hope Six Demolition Project
Background and development
Harvey wrote the song for the Project of the Destruction of Hope and his The Hollow of the Hand during his trip to Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington DC with photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy between 2011 and 2014.
Maps The Hope Six Demolition Project
Recording
The album was created in an open session for the public as part of an art installation at Somerset House in London called Record in Progress . The sessions are forty-five minutes each and last for one month, starting on January 16, 2015 and ending on 14 February. Viewers can see Harvey making the album through one-way glass with Flood producer and John Parish, both of whom have worked on previous Harvey album Let England Shake .
Mobile phones and devices with recording capabilities were seized prior to entry and viewers were taken to the dungeon. During the first airing, he was working on a song titled "Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln", which was featured on the album. Harvey is reportedly playing violin, harmonica, and hurdy-gurdy. It was also reported that he joined musicians Terry Edwards and James Johnston and that Seamus Murphy was filming the entire session.
Release
Both albums were aired on BBC Radio 6 Music, each on the day before its release. "The Wheel" premiered on Steve Lamacq's show on January 21, 2016. Lamacq also revealed the album's release date to April 15, 2016. "The Community of Hope" premiered on Shaun Keaveny's show on March 10, 2016. "The Orange Monkey" was released as the album's third single on April 7, 2016.
The music video for "The Wheel" was released on February 1, 2016, and for "The Community of Hope" on March 18, 2016. Both videos were directed by Seamus Murphy.
Critical reception
The Six-Hope Destruction Project generally received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized ranking of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on 31 reviews.
Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune praised the album, writing that it "builds proficiently for one-two strong and close punches". Representative of the journalist Robert Christgau is more devoted to his praise, briefly describing the record as "Pollyically Pollyic, which means sharp observation, analytic release, and paradoxical melody that is forgiving again and again by pessimism and hating people ". This album is named after Mojo ' best ninth album of 2016 and Uncut ' the best sixth album from 2016.
More responses
Upon its release, the opening song and the second single, "The Community of Hope", invited direct criticism from a politician who nominated a board seat at Ward 7 in Washington, DC, with former DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray saying "I would not appreciate this silly composition with answers ", and his campaign treasurer Chuck Thies insult Harvey with" PJ Harvey is what music Piers Morgan is wire news. "Grant Thompson, a pastor and former congressman who ran for the ward council seat 7, stated that Harvey" needs to see more many more cities ".
Sometimes, the lyric content is criticized for politics without literally proposing government policy. Laura Snapes of Pitchfork asked, "By pointing out the problems in these three communities, but not proposing a solution, is he (Harvey) equally responsible for their desertion as a global force that came before him?"
Accolades
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number one on the UK Albums Charts. It sold 11,436 copies and became PJ Harvey's number one album in the UK. In the second week, the album sold 3,372 copies and fell twenty-two places to number twenty-three. It listed the second largest drop in graphics history for album number one; Christina Aguilera's Bionic (2010) has fallen twenty-eight places.
Track list
All songs are written by PJ Harvey.
- Non-album track
Personnel
Musician
- PJ Harvey - vocals, guitar (2, 5, 6, 8-10) , saxophone tenor (2 & amp; 9) , alto saxophone (7 & amp; 8) , violin
(6) , bass harmonica & amp; autoharp (9) , clapping (10) , piano & amp; shaker (15) - John Parish - backing vocals, guitar (1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 14, 15) , percussion (2-13) , keyboard (2) , variophon (3-5, 7, 9, 11) , accordion (6) , Mellotron vibes (6, 11 ) , Baritone & amp; synth bass (8) , autoharp (9) , clapping (10) , piano & amp; synthesizer (12) , bass (12, 15) , drums (15)
- Flood - backing vocals (1, 2, 4-6, 8-10, 12-14) , synth bass (3) , Sonic Maverick < (9)
- Mick Harvey - backing vocals (2, 5, 7, 10) , percussion (2, 7, 8, 10) , Taurus pedal (2 , 3, 7, 9) , slide guitar (3) , keyboard (3, 7, 10, 11) , bass (9) , guitar & amp; applause (10)
- Jean-Marc Butty - backing vocals (2, 5, 7) , percussion (7, 8, 11)
Guest musician
- Linton Kwesi Johnson - vocals (2)
- Terry Edwards - backing vocals (1, 4-6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14) , percussion (1, 4, 8, 13) , baritone saxophone (1, 4) , keyboard (5) , guitar, flute & amp; bass harmonica (6) , saxophones (8, 9, 11) , melodica (9) , guitar (12)
- Mike Smith - backing vocals (1, 2, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14) , baritone saxophone (1, 4, 7, 10) , piano (1) , keyboard (2, 4, 7) , saxophone (2) , percussion (7) , applause (10)
- James Johnston - backing vocals (1, 3-6, 11-14) , keyboard (1, 5) , violin (4, 6) , guitar (6, 8) , organ (11, 13)
- Alain Johannes - backing vocals (1-4, 7, 10, 11, 14) , small <(1, 2, 7, 10) , saxophone > (4, 7) , clapping (10) >
- Kenrick Rowe - backing vocals (1, 4, 9, 10, 12, 14) , percussion (1-4, 9, 10, 12) , hands applause (10)
- Enrico Gabrielli - backing vocals (1, 4, 14) , percussion (1) , bass clarinet (1-4) , swanee whistle (4) , basset clarinet (12)
- Alessandro Stefana - backing vocals (1, 4, 12, 14) , guitar (1-4, 12, 14)
- Adam 'Cecil' Bartlett - backing vocals (1, 4, 6, 10) , bass (1, 4, 10)
- Ramy Essam - vocals & amp; acoustic guitar (15)
Production
- Flood - producer, mixing
- John Parish - producer
- Drew Smith - mix
- Rob Kirwan - record, design
- Adam 'Cecil' Bartlett - additional techniques, mixed engineering
- Caesar Edmunds - mixed engineering
Design
- Michelle Henning - artwork, art direction
- Rob Crane - layout, design
- Seamus Murphy - photography
Diagram
References
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