B-Sides, Demos & Rarities
ISLAND
8/10
LET’S start at the end. The final track on this exhaustive trawl of the ditches and crossroads of PJ Harvey’s oeuvre is “Red Right Hand”, the signature song of Harvey’s one-time collaborator Nick Cave. It is a song about devilry, written in blood; subsequently reshaped as the theme of the haircut gangster drama Peaky Blinders.
For Cave, “Red Right Hand” is a chance to embrace rock’n’roll at its most bloodraw. It is a tent-revival song in which fear and belief are locked in hideous quickstep. Since its
