![]() ![]() ![]() The Desperate Kingdom of Love, however, is essential.ħ. The scuzzy garage rock of Who the Fuck? sounds reedy and thin, a pale imitation of the acerbic music she made her name with. ![]() Written during a period of enforced creative isolation, Harvey recorded and played every instrument on the album (bar drums, handled by long-time collaborator Rob Ellis), which lends the album a DIY-aesthetic that doesn’t always suit the songs. After her biggest commercial success, with 2000's Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, it seemed that Harvey wasn’t entirely comfortable in the position she found herself. She subsequently explained to Time Out magazine that she "wanted to get back to the earthy, rootsy, more dirty side of things" following her brush with the mainstream. Consequently, Uh Huh Her feels like it’s trying to antagonise and confront the listener, but more often than not, her sixth studio set comes across as a bunch of unfinished, rushed ideas (particularly strange considering there was a 4-year gap between albums). ![]()
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