Lambrini Girls’ Country’s God’s Country “rejects PJ Harvey’s England

The country I love / England / leaves a taste / over again
– PJ Harvey, “England”

Great Britain! / Are you sure?
– Lamperini girls, “the country of God”

PJ Harvey album for the year 2010 Let England vibrate It is a masterpiece of sadness. It revolves around England’s legendary love, and it is a nation that is arrogant enough to believe that the sun was unable to set on its soil, then she was surprised and without feeding when its colonial people refused the grip of its death. Harvey’s record, who leaks through her painful and archaeological voice, focuses on the loss of the empire from the colonial perspective, and the question was asked: What do you do when a nation you love is lost?

For sadness properly, Freud tells us in Mourning and depression(1917), you should be able to admit a loss to understand that what you loved has gone before moving forward in an unknown future. Harvey’s character in the song “England” cannot do this, and despite the taste of bitterness, she sings in order to get ideal love, “I cling to / do not cling to / love that is unprecedented.”

The song and the album in Melancholia, the case of a person who is unable to recognize his loss. Instead, they get to know themselves narcissistic with what they lost, and they refused contradict and wanted without being able to leave it. Paul Gillroy’s wonderful adaptation of this type of narcissistic behavior, which he describes Pattering sadnessHe argues that these feelings have leaked to the lifeline in the United Kingdom, where previous glories are celebrated impatiently, and the painful injuries caused by state violence either ignored or impossible negatively. With the ideal national collapse, Gilroy explains how new efforts are made to rebuild the imperial facades. Margaret Thatcher may have died, but God saves the queen.

PJ Harvey’s England can no longer dance: As the title of the album, it shakes, flows through the dance hall in its old clothes and watching the ancient world, and more interested in breeding toasted bread in the bar to the heroes of war from contacting other corpses on the ground.

I could not stop image From Vibi Lony, singer and guitarist for Lamperini girls, kneeling on the floor of a small music place, with crowds on both sides. With her outstretched hand in the air and the other holds the microphone, it seems as if it had separated the crowd with the absolute power of its will, and revealed the dilapidated old dance circuit in a place that witnessed its best days in the past. In them Live programsWe know that Lunny will give the sign soon, and it will start Lily Macieira and Flora Kimberly with excessive music, and the crowd will rush together in a violent dance. The old floor will be covered in interlocking bodies.

In my mind, Who left dogsThe first album for a Lamborini, political, and unlikely girl can be heard, as a reaction to Let England vibrateHe shouted for 15 years. England and the world differ in 2025 a lot from 2010. While the PJ Harvey heroes may have stumbled around an attempt to adhere to the heroic heroic sliding image in the aftermath of the Gulf War, the Laberinian girls have no time for the sad -Jazi.

“God nation”The last of their LP song, it can be heard as the rejection of “England” for Harvey. With a simple but thick opening for drums and deformed heavy wires, the song begins with a hymn -like quality, with the screaming Lunny “All Hail / God’s Country” before giving what appears to be a tiring response to a person who asks what should see it as a visit: “Big Ben / No. 10 / Oxford and Cambridge. ” The response is not lazy inspiring, as if it was by just mentioning “Big Ben”, it is sufficient to present it as a memorial to the country of God – it is very clear that it is “wonderful” so that there is no need to think through the fact that it returns down the time and days.

In expressing Lunny of the term, the monument reveals its cracks; “Big Ben” for a Lambrini girl is Big Ben from European National Lampoon holidaysWhere Clark discovers the roundabout and screams, “Children, Big Ben! “But unable to get out of the road, it continues to repeat the phrase while the night descends on the family. The symbol is a trap that keeps you in space, unable to move forward.

In the inclusion of these seven words, the symbols of history in England, the government, and the elite education are empty, lacking all subjects. Unlike the sad PJ Harvey’s sound, singing from polluted Thames, which calls for a time when the river was not toxic, for the LaBerry girls, there is no legendary past when these symbols were great. There is no desire to lose because the past is a lie.

Immediately after presenting its list, Lunny goes to kill, and revealed what all this vacuum is: “The little talk about the external / outside detention centers.” Empty symbols, such as the empty talk about the weather, revolve around it and a tour like Clark on the roundabout, while real men, women and children are trapped in detention centers that have become invisible intentionally through the small conversation and vulgar symbolism.

This singing song connects these two songs together, sewing 2010 and 2025 together. In “England” of Harvey, right for a nation to which foreigners are exposed, the song begins on the guitar of tampering with “La-Ta-Da-Da” sad but made deserted in its long breathing launch of the phrase. It evokes waste of memories that she tries to remember. While its observations are repeated, another voice comes through the background, a foreign male voice, it is a language and words that are not clear, but it seems like a prayer call. Nevertheless, this sound is silenced, as the protagonist sings slowly, “I live and die / via England / through England”, as if repeating the phrase will make her England come true.

But as much as this pledge appears to be enough to calm those foreign voices that leak, it returns throughout the song, sometimes soaked in the sound of guitar and Harvey with others. The protagonist, though, never recognizes the sounds; You will live and die as she searches for England.

The country of God, on the other hand, is clear that there is no legendary land. Throughout the song’s choir, Lunny shouts, “Great Britain!” Before responding to a malicious, despite anger, “Are you sure?” This rhetorical question, whose answer is clear, can be considered one of the foreign voices that boycott Harvey’s song. It is a strange voice, from the working class, and feminist, disturbing it in its power and rejecting faith in England deserves to be savings (“democracy is never no longer”, screaming). The band does not care about promoting the elderly who comment on their lost love; They wander, dance together and refuse to go away.

in “Glorious land“Another song from Let England vibrateHarvey also offers a call and response. At the end of the song, she wonders, “What is the glorious fruit for our land?” With the response to the choir, “its fruit is distorted children”. Lubbirin girls are that fruit, “distorted” because they are not willing to slip into sad depression, as they reach a past that was never. For those who hold the past, these “girls” are foreigners, and their clear and angry voices are dangerous to the crown.

We are currently living in the era of government re -mobilization of the White National Authority as a symbol of “greatness”. Trump’s election of the right -wing and powerful vote who take their places in the seats of power apparently exhausted a lot from the left. When Trump was first elected in 2016, the left’s response was strong, a group of anger and righteousness, which was expressed in solidarity marches and combat protests.

As of writing these lines, with Trump on the right to the right, there is a sorrow that settles in a large part of the left, with his election that exhausts radical political action, which is unabated, aggressive. It seems that it was long ago when we were discussing “democratic socialism” or “neglecting the police.” It is not difficult to imagine that the monuments of the white nationalists that were demolished by large crowds a few years ago will be rebuilt this year by active bureaucrats, and linking and consolidating their strength through the legendary past.

In Enzo Traverso’s Left depressionThe historian recalls the psychological injuries of many activists who have seen the idea of ​​an integral and fair society in front of them. These men and women who put their lives at stake for a better world have suffered psychological injuries from the loss of the ideal. Unlike many of their travelers, they survived the accident that came in the form of deportations, prolonged prison or death, at the hands of mob. Nevertheless, their survival came as a cost, as many have struggled to be sad for their lost virtuous vision and find new horizons to fight for her. The art they made and the articles they wrote in the wake of its ideal loss, stumbled in their inability to abandon the past and face a dark future.

I think this is why it gives me comfort to look at this Lunny image in the place of music, surrounded by others. In the picture, she was kneeling but not afraid, and she feels the unarmed power of the crowd who awaited the sign until they belonged to the ground. “Country of God” and the rest of the songs Who left dogs The facts shout about the current crises of gender, class and racial exploitation.

But this is not a frustrating and frustrated album; There is joy in his anger, a strange invitation to others to reach the ground and start dance. “England”, “America” ​​and “the West” have never announced it; What can still be imagined. Lambrini girls benefit from these feelings of uncertainty with Swagger, celebrating the marginalized that is not afraid to enter the arena and show that it is in response to the longing of sadness, there is hope for “Fuck You”. It may not be an answer, but it is an invitation to the gathering.