Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Fri 09 Sep 2007A memorable memento moriCD Choice:RockPolly Jean Harvey knows a thing or two about reinvention. This is, after all, a woman who went from no make-up and underarm hair to drag-glam make-up and a sequinned Stars and Stripes bra. The cover of White Chalk is yet another incarnation, but this time it's all virginal restraint and angelic sulkiness. Clad in white and eerily echoing a Victorian death photo, PJ is the opposite of her modern assertive self.