In The Dark Places

PJ Harvey - In The Dark Places (play below) (buy)

A beautiful melody emphasized by simple high-hat taps. The dark lyrics and war stories of Let England Shake are balanced with piano and horns on standouts like "The Last Living Rose", but "In Dark Places" is the album's high point; where its landscape is drawn with textural guitar strums and spaced bass lines that Harvey moves through like a crow stepping through dark curtains.