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Dance Hall at Louse Point
Studio album by John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey
Released	23 September 1996 (UK) 24 September 1996 (US)
Recorded	12 February – 10 March 1996
Genre	Art Rock
Length	39:47
Label	Island
Producer	Mick Harvey Polly Jean Harvey John Parish
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link The A.V. Club (Unfavourable) link Pitchfork Media (6.3/10) link Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone RS745
John Parish chronology
Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) Rosie (2000)
PJ Harvey chronology
To Bring You My Love (1995) Dance Hall at Louse Point (1996) Is This Desire? (1998)

Dance Hall at Louse Point is a 1996 album by John Parish and Polly Jean Harvey. Parish wrote and played the music, while Harvey sang vocals and wrote the lyrics. The pair had been musical collaborators for several years before making this album together – as a teenager growing up in rural England, Harvey contributed saxophone, guitar and backing vocals to Parish’s band Automatic Dlamini before forming her own band in 1991. Parish later served as co-producer, guitarist, percussionist and keyboard player on Harvey’s 1995 album To Bring You My Love, and would also feature heavily on her 1998 album Is This Desire?. Image File history File links Mergefrom. ... Strychnine Ballroom: Live at Louse Point is a live 1996 bootleg album by John Parish and P. J. Harvey. ... Image File history File links Dance_Hall_at_Louse_Point. ... A studio album is a collection of previously unreleased, studio-recorded tracks by a recording artist. ... John Parish is an English musician and producer best known for his work with singer and songwriter PJ Harvey. ... PJ Harvey in concert. ... is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year (70th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Art rock is a term used by some to describe rock music that is characterized by ambitious or avant-garde lyrical themes and/or melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic experimentation, often extending beyond standard modern popular music forms and genres, toward influences in jazz, classical, world music or the experimental avant... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Michael John Harvey (born 29 September 1958 in Rochester, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian rock musician, composer, arranger and record producer. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 3_stars. ... The A.V. Club is an entertainment newspaper and website published by The Onion. ... Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork and occasionally shortened to P4K or pfork,[1] is a United States-based daily Internet publication devoted to music criticism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews. ... Robert Christgau (born April 18, 1942), is an American essayist, music journalist, and the self-declared Dean of American Rock Critics.[1] In print, his name is sometimes abbreviated as Xgau. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the music magazine. ... Image File history File links 2_stars. ... John Parish is an English musician and producer best known for his work with singer and songwriter PJ Harvey. ... PJ Harvey in concert. ... To Bring You My Love is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. ... Is This Desire? is a 1998 (see 1998 in music) album by British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. ... John Parish is an English musician and producer best known for his work with singer and songwriter PJ Harvey. ... PJ Harvey in concert. ... To Bring You My Love is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. ... Is This Desire? is a 1998 (see 1998 in music) album by British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. ...

The album was viewed by many PJ Harvey fans as a minor side project – perhaps due to the top billing accorded the more obscure Parish and her own accreditation as Polly Jean Harvey rather than the more widely-recognised PJ Harvey name – and consequently it sold more poorly than any of her solo releases, entering the UK charts at #46 and barely denting the U.S. Billboard charts at #178. It yielded only one single, "That Was My Veil", which spent a week at #75 in the UK charts. Harvey later admitted that she let Parish handle all promotional duties for the record because she was exhausted following a year of intense promotional activity for her own To Bring You My Love album in 1995. Reportedly, bosses at Harvey’s Island Records label feared the avant-garde venture was “commercial suicide”, despite it winning generally positive reviews: Entertainment Weekly opined, “This is 'deep' music in every sense; total immersion is recommended”, Musician reckoned “The results are as engaging as they are disturbing....full of strange moves and unusual textures”, Logo felt it was “thrillingly sinister”, while Q magazine praised its “polecat scat and brooding rural blues", adding that it felt "more a series of themes and word paintings.” Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. ... To Bring You My Love is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by British singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. ... Island Records is a record label that was founded by British record producers in Jamaica. ... Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated EW) is a magazine published by Time Inc. ... Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ...

Speaking about the album to NME in 1998, Harvey explained "I just really wanted to learn different things, and a lot of learning comes from working with other people. I tend to place more importance on lyric writing than music, and I wanted to somehow bring the music to a similar level with that, but I didn’t feel confident in myself as a musician to do it. I know John can write demanding and intellectual music, much more than mine, which is very simple. So it was really just to test my lyric writing." In 2001 she told Chicago Sun-Times, "People don't even count that, yet that's the record I'm really proud of. It was an enormous turning point. Lyrically, it moved me into areas I'd never been to before. Faced with John's music, which is so different to my own, it just made me write lyrics in a very different way and structure songs in a different way." For other uses, see NME (disambiguation). ... The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago. ...

Parish and Harvey did a brief UK club tour with the Mark Bruce Dance Company in early 1997, performing the album’s experimental songs with a group of interpretive ballet dancers onstage.

Track listing

1. "Girl" – 1:29
2. "Rope Bridge Crossing" – 5:10
3. "City of No Sun" – 2:14
4. "That Was My Veil" – 3:01
5. "Urn with Dead Flowers in a Drained Pool" – 3:03
6. "Civil War Correspondent" – 4:23
7. "Taut" – 3:15
8. "Un Cercle Autour du Soleil" – 5:07
9. "Heela" – 3:19
10. "Is That All There Is?" – 5:11
11. "Dance Hall at Louse Point" – 2:10
12. "Lost Fun Zone" – 1:27

Charts

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