PJ Harvey's "Plants and Rags" is an gut-wrenching crawl of a song - in the best way possible. Violins creak in a haunting blast of sound. An acoustic guitar roughly burns through a pattern of deep minor chords. Harvey's 1993 debut, "Dry," is a real force of nature throughout, but nowhere is it stronger than on this mid-album roar. Harvey has a knack for pairing technical precision with discordant experimentalism and making it sound good - much like predecessor and influence, Patti Smith. "Plants and Rags" is one of the best examples of that rare, near unmatched songwriting ability. She'll have you at "ease myself into a body-bag."
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