Following the release of their skin-flaying debut Dry in 1992 and the even more abrasive Rid Of Me the following year, the trio disbanded and Harvey continued working under the same moniker. Harvey's shy persona is at odds with the figurehead who emerged in the early 90s at the forefront of the PJ Harvey trio with bassist Steve Vaughan and drummer Robert Ellis. A diminutive figure swathed in black and sat on a vast settee, she's determined - as ever - not to give too much away. "It wasn't a church I went to, but it's quite near my house and it's on a place I often walked through". "I knew the area very well," she answers simply. Another question - this time about the personal significance of the 19th century church the album was recorded in - is knocked away with a straight bat, too. "I don't feel I have to explain the intentions behind anything". "I've done my part, really," she says softly. A probing into the meaning behind the words of her new album Let England Shake is easily deflected. She's long been cast as a reluctant interviewee, loathe to give away any detail which might pin down her work with a definitive interpretation or allow unfettered glimpses into her private life. Bookended by a cup of green tea on her side and a Dictaphone on ours, it's a physical gap of roughly eight feet at times, though, it feels closer to 80. A dark, sleek mahogany table separates Polly Harvey from The Quietus.
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