Alt-rock icon PJHarveyUK is the rare artist whose outtakes are often as good as the songs on her albums. Here are 15 of her greatest strays.
Her voice sounds powerful but also distraught as she mourns poor Zaz in what sounds like a very authentic way. The cover, a collaboration with former Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band member Eric Drew Feldman, came out only once on the compilationStella Does Tricks
, finds her singing, “All of this is mine” over swelling and echoing strings. The song, which is a collaboration with film composer Nick Bicât, a slow-paced, evocative mood piece perfect for cinema and on its own, it’s a bit like a mantra. Although the track didn’t make the rarities box set, another Bicât collaboration that did isand as a B side to “This Was My Veil” — and it’s one of the best in the collection.
Harvey paid tribute to Jeff Buckley, who died by drowning in Memphis in 1997, on this B side to “Good Fortune.” “Oh, what a way to go,” she sings amid shimmering guitar, “So peaceful, you’re smiling.” In the fourth verse, she even quotes some of Buckley’s “Morning Theft,” alluding to his words, “I miss my beautiful friend,” making the song one of Harvey’s most emotional.and performed this song live around the album’s release, but she did not include it on her album.
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