PJ Harvey's 'Let England Shale' Beats Adele And Kate Bush To Ivor Novello 'Album Award'
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey’s 'Let England Shake' has been awarded the Ivor Novello 'Album Award' at today’s ceremony in Central London – beating other other nominees including Adele (for her huge-selling album '21') and Kate Bush (for '50 Words For Snow').
Written and performed by PJ Harvey herslef, 'Let England Shake', was released to wide-spread critical acclaim in February last year, with NME commenting “Over two decades, she’s been one of Britain’s most consistently talented songwriters and performers… her most brilliant album to date,” before giving her a 10/10.
'Let England Shake' has been recognised as the best album of 2011 by numerous others (including Mojo, Uncut and The Guardian) and was awarded the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for Album of the Year, making Harvey the only artist to have received this award twice, previously winning in 2001 for 'Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea'. Harvey also received NME’s Outstanding Contribution to Music 2011 and the Uncut Music Award 2011.
The album was the eighth studio album of her career and has now go on to earn a Gold certification in the UK.
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