PJ Harvey Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea

Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "Women In Rock: The 50 Essential Albums" - "...With STORIES, Harvey moved from punk to celestial..."
Ranked #6 in Rolling Stone's "Top 10 Albums of 2000" - "...Her most optimistic and straightforward album yet....Her magnificent diva-with-a-grudge voice testifies, swoons, purrs and whispers..."
Ranked #7 in Spin's "Top 20 Albums of the Year [2000]".
8 out of 10 - "...Her return to the down'n'dirty....ending up in the heaven of great records..."
"...High-voltage love songs....the rugged melodies...sink their teeth in and don;t let go. A bracing reminder of the days when female musicians reached for guitars..." - Rating: A-
Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".
4 stars out of 5 - "...The dominant sound is that of a 3-piece garage band, fused with enough production panache to prove that Harvey remains an admirably intelligent auteur..."
5 out of 5 - "...A mature, intelligent album shining gracefully with passion. It is unquestionably one of the best releases of the year."
"...[This] has the pulse and momentum that recalls [her] earliest albums. STORIES mostly derives its greatest strength from an authority of its own making. It's the best way forward."
Included in CMJ's "Best of the Year" for 2000.
"...Undoubtedly New York....spare, contemplative and as explosive as anything she's done in years..."
3 stars out of 5 - "...Pleasant. Inoffensive. 'The Pretenders'....A comforting swell of an album..."
Ranked #25 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[T]he skyscraping spirit of Harvey's commercial blockbuster was distilled entirely from the Big Apple."
"...Recallign a young Patti Smith...[its] an artist taking a supremely confident step back from the Zeitgeist..."
Rated #3 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year".
9 out of 10 - "...A traditional New York record, both in texture and imagery....[Her] best album since 1991's DRY, a return to the feral intensity of that remarkable debut..."