Dance Hall at Louse Point

album by Harvey and Parish

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The album "Dance Hall at Louse Point" is a 1996 collaboration between British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey and John Parish. This album marked a departure for Harvey, as she relinquished control of the music, which was considered her primary strength. The album's title refers to a style of Jamaican popular music that emerged in the late 1970s and became dominant in the 1980s and 1990s. Dancehall music features a deejay who "toasts" or raps over prerecorded rhythm tracks.12

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On Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996), a collaboration with John Parish, who had been her bandmate in Automatic Dlamini when they were teenagers, she gave up control of the music, which, far more than her lyrics, turned out to be her main strength.
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On Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996), a collaboration with John Parish, who had been her bandmate in Automatic Dlamini when they were teenagers, she gave up control of the music, which, far more than her lyrics, turned out to be her main strength.
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