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''Let England Shake'' is the eighth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, released on 11 February 2011 by Island Records. Work on it began around the time of ''White Chalk''s release in 2007, though it is a departure from the piano-driven introspection of that album. The album was written over a period of two-and-a-half years, and recorded in a five-week period at a church in Dorset in April and May 2010. Upon its release the album received numerous accolades. It was named "Album of the Year" for 2011 by 16 publications〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Music Critic Top 10 Lists – Best Albums of 2011 – Metacritic )〕 and in September 2011 won the coveted Mercury Prize. It was PJ Harvey's fourth nomination overall (including another win in 2001), making her the most successful artist in the prize's history. The album also won the Uncut Music Award in November 2011, and is named Album of the Year in the 2012 Ivor Novello Awards. == Background and development == Harvey began writing lyrics for the album before setting the words to music. She has cited the poetry of Harold Pinter and T.S. Eliot as influences, as well as the artwork of Salvador Dalí and Francisco de Goya and music of The Doors, The Pogues, and The Velvet Underground. She has also spoken of researching the history of conflict, including the Gallipoli Campaign, and reading modern-day testimonies from civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. During some solo shows some years prior to working on this album, Harvey had begun playing the autoharp. She told local newspaper ''Bridport News'' in 2011: "I was really enjoying this different, enormous, wide breadth of sound that the autoharp gives. It's quite a delicate sound, but it's also like having an entire orchestra at your fingertips. I began by writing quite a lot on the autoharp, and then slowly as time went by, (because this album was written over two and a half years)… my writing started moving into experimenting with different guitars, and using different sound applications, ones that I had never really experimented with."〔 On the subject of a new vocal style for the album, Harvey commented that "I couldn't sing (songs ) in a rich strong mature voice without it sounding completely wrong. So I had to slowly find the voice, and this voice started to develop, almost taking on the role of a narrator."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Let England Shake」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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