Eclectic singer/songwriter PJ Harvey becomes the first musician to bag her second Mercury Prize, UK’s award recognising the year’s most influential album. Harvey scooped the honour for her album Let England Shake in the award ceremony held on Tuesday evening.
Harvey’s war-themed record, England Shake is a socio-political comment on the country’s stand at the raging battles engulfing the Middle East and its effects on middle class Britons. She beat 11 other albums, including Adele’s pop-hit 21, rapper Tinie Tempah’s Disc-Overy and Katy B’s On a Mission. Proving to be the most popular artiste in the awards’s history, Harvey had also been nominated previously for her 1993 Ride of Me and 1995 To Bring you my Love records
Receiving the $32,000 Mercury Prize at the ceremony, she told 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq, “First of all, I’d like to thank you very much for this award and thank you for the recognition of my work on this album. This album took me a long time to write and was very important to me, and I wanted to make something meaningful, not only for me but for other people, and hopefully something that would last.”
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