See Jehnny Beth s Vulnerable Side in French Countryside Video
Track comes off last year s To Love Is to Live album
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Jehnny Beth’s video for “French Countryside,” the standout track from last year’s
To Love Is to Live, is nearly as stripped-back as the ballad itself. The artist, dressed in black (other than for a hoodie with her album cover on it) sings the tune in a plain, black studio, gesticulating the lyrics as the piano plays behind her voice.
“It’s a promise song,” said Beth, whose real name is Camille Berthomier, in a statement. “I wrote the verses on a plane as I was convinced it was going to crash. I was making promises to myself about what I was going to do differently if I survived. Death has been very present in my mind during the process of writing this record. It all started around Bowie’s death.” (Beth explained the influence Bowie had on the record in an interview with
This week is the 10th anniversary of
PJ Harvey s eighth album
Let England Shake.
Drawing on stories of war for lyrical and musical inspiration, the record was a change in direction which earned the acclaimed UK artist her second Mercury Music Prize.
She toured the album to our shores at the start of 2012, and the triple j live music team captured this spectacular show at the State Theatre in Sydney as part of Sydney Festival.
Featuring long-time collaborators
John Parish and
Jean-Marc Butty, this show covers songs from that acclaimed album, as well as some of the finest songs from across her career.
his songs and lyrics reflective of a long, hard life cut me right down to the bone. his career has spanned two decades beginning with the screaming trees in the 90 s and continuing through numerous brilliant collaborations with artists like queens of the stone age, pj harvey, kurt cobain, unkle, mad season, the gutter twins, isobel campbell and massive attack. maybe you know him from such theme songs as this show. mark: wow. spicy. anthony: yeah, that s good. anthony: dinner with mark and touring guitarist jeff fielder at ocho in ballard, where they serve up generous drinks and tasty spanish-influenced tapas. anthony: you grew up two hours outside of seattle? mark: yeah, in eastern washington, which is like the countryside, ranching, farming community. anthony: you don t live here
guy, steve albini, would have to be a powerful candidate. member of the legendary chicago punk band big black and one of the most important producers of underground rock. albini produced some of the most influential music of the last 25 years the pixies, slint, nirvana, pj harvey, to name a few. he takes me to one of his favorite chicago spots ricobene to sample the particularly unholy delights of the breaded fried steak sandwich. holy this thing is steve: this is a half a sandwich, bare in mind. anthony: that s like four pounds. steve: yeah. anthony: wow. we re going to need a boat load of napkins. there s no delicate way to eat this, you just hoist and go. steve: the time out of the fryer is also critical. these are still crispy on the outside. this is precisely the way this sandwich was meant to be eaten. anthony: yeah. that is a thing of beauty. and tasty. steve: mm-hmm. anthony: so, you have
his songs and lyrics reflective of a long, hard life cut me right down to the bone. his career has spanned two decades beginning with the screaming trees in the 90 s and continuing through numerous brilliant collaborations with artists like queens of the stone age, pj harvey, kurt cobain, unkle, mad season, the gutter twins, isobel campbell and massive attack. maybe you know him from such theme songs as this show. mark: wow. spicy. anthony: yeah, that s good. anthony: dinner with mark and touring guitarist jeff fielder at ocho in ballard, where they serve up generous drinks and tasty spanish-influenced tapas. anthony: you grew up two