PJ Harvey paid tribute to Steve Albini ... A year after her 1992 debut album Dry, Harvey enlisted Albini for her sophomore LP after hearing his work with Pixies and the Breeders.

The final track on this exhaustive trawl of the ditches and crossroads of PJ Harvey’s oeuvre is ... in which the demo versions of Harvey’s albums have been compared, often favourably ...

Before PJ Harvey released Dry — her volcanic 1992 debut album of molten folk blues that launched an artistic career defined only by constant renewal — she studied sculpture in London.