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Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

January 01, 1970

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea is the fifth studio album by the English singer-songwriter PJ Harvey, released on 23 October 2000 by Island Records.[2] Recorded during March to April 2000, it contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey's affection for New York City.[3]

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Studio album by
PJ Harvey
Released23 October 2000 (2000-10-23)
RecordedMarch–April 2000
StudioLinford Manor
(Milton Keynes, England)
GenreAlternative rock[1]
Length47:25
LabelIsland
Producer
PJ Harvey chronology
Is This Desire?
(1998) 		Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
(2000) 		Uh Huh Her
(2004)
Singles from Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
  1. "Good Fortune"
    Released: 13 November 2000
  2. "A Place Called Home"
    Released: 26 February 2001
  3. "This Is Love"
    Released: 8 October 2001

The album became the second major commercial success of her recording career, following her successful breakthrough To Bring You My Love (1995). Upon its release, the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades, including the 2001 Mercury Prize. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, and has been certified Platinum in the United Kingdom and Australia.[4][5] It is generally regarded as one of her best works.[6][7][8]

Background and music edit

In 1998, while shooting a film as an actress for Hal Hartley in New York, she felt inspired by the city and wrote several songs. Some of them ended up on the record.[9] In 1999, she chose to live there for nine months.[10] However, she insisted in interviews it was not "my New York album". Songs were also written while she was in London or at home in Dorset.[10] Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea was then recorded at Linford Manor in Milton Keynes in March – April 2000. The record was co-produced by Mick Harvey, Rob Ellis and Harvey, and mixed by Victor Van Vugt at the Fallout Shelter. The album featured a duet with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the track "This Mess We're In", as well as backing vocals and keyboards from Yorke on the songs "One Line" and "Beautiful Feeling". She had met Yorke in 1992 and they had stayed in contact. She said: "I'd long been interested in the idea of somebody else singing a whole song on a record of mine, to have a very different dimension brought in by somebody else's voice. It adds so much dynamic within the record to have this other character coming in".[9]

She wanted the record to be more direct: "It's very different musically to the first couple of albums. It's very melodic, and it's much rounder and fuller. The earlier albums were very black and white in some sense, very extreme. Melodically, this is much more sophisticated than those records. It kind of feels like a combination of every album I've made so far rolled into one."[9] The songs were also a musical departure from her previous dark material. Harvey told Q in 2001, "I wanted everything to sound as beautiful as possible. Having experimented with some dreadful sounds on Is This Desire? and To Bring You My Love - where I was really looking for dark, unsettling, nauseous-making sounds - Stories from the City... was the reaction. I thought, No, I want absolute beauty. I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody. I want it to be my beautiful, sumptuous, lovely piece of work." She did, however, concede jokingly that it was only "pop according to PJ Harvey, which is probably as un-pop as you can get according to most people's standards."[11]

Pitchfork compared her voice on the lead single "Good Fortune" to that of the Pretenders's Chrissie Hynde,[12] while the Los Angeles Times observed: "Her singing often recalls Patti Smith and Siouxsie Sioux, artists who, like Harvey, project a sexuality derived from—yet never bound by—rock's male sensibilities."[13]

Release and commercial performance edit

The album was released on 24 October 2000, and promoted with a video for the lead single "Good Fortune", shot at night in streets of New York. It reached number 23 on the UK Albums Chart.[14] The album was certified Platinum in the UK, with sales over 300,000 copies. The album debuted at number 42 on the US Billboard 200 chart.[15] As of 2003, it has sold 357,000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan.[16] It has also been certified Gold in France, and has sold 1 million copies worldwide.[17]

The album was reissued on vinyl in February 2021 as part of a comprehensive reissue campaign of Harvey's back catalogue. A collection of unreleased demos, titled Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – Demos, was also released.[18]

Critical reception edit

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic88/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [19]
Chicago Sun-Times    [20]
Entertainment WeeklyA−[21]
Los Angeles Times    [13]
NME9/10[22]
Pitchfork5.5/10 (2000)[23]
8.4/10 (2021)[24]
Q     [25]
Rolling Stone     [26]
Spin8/10[27]
The Village VoiceA+[7]

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea received critical acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 88, based on 25 reviews.[6] NME hailed it as "a magnificent, life-affirming opus" by Harvey.[22] Robert Christgau called it "the best album of her career" in his review for Rolling Stone.[26]

Other critics rated it as only average. Spencer Owen of Pitchfork viewed the album as lacking in distinction, saying "the sheen gets slicker and her music gets duller".[12] The publication later, however, ranked it at number 124 in their "The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s" list in 2009.[28] In 2021, they included it in their "Rescored" list, saying that they wished to change their original score of 5.4 to an 8.4.[29]

Accolades edit

The album earned Harvey Brit Award nominations as Best British Female Artist for two years running, as well as two Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Female Rock Performance for the single "This Is Love".[30]

For the album, Harvey was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize for the third time (her previous nominations were for Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love). The award ceremony was held on 11 September 2001. Harvey was in Washington, D.C., on that day and witnessed the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon from her hotel room window. She was announced as the winner and accepted her award by phone, saying "It has been a very surreal day. All I can say is thank you very much, I am absolutely stunned."[31] The win made Harvey the first female solo artist to receive the Mercury Prize in the award's history.

The album was ranked number eight on Rolling Stone's list of the 50 Essential "Women in rock" Albums.[32] In 2002, Q magazine named Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea the Greatest Album of All-Time by a Female Artist.[33] In 2006, the album was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[34] In 2009, Pitchfork named the album the 124th Top Album of the 2000s.[35] In 2009, NME also placed the album inside their Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade, at number six.[36] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.[37] Rolling Stone named it the thirty-fifth best album of the decade.[38] In 2019, the album was ranked 19th on The Guardian's 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list.[39] In the 2012 version of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, it was ranked at number 431,[40] then in the 2020 update, it was moved up to number 313.[41]

Track listing edit

All tracks are written by PJ Harvey

Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – Standard edition
No.TitleLength
1."Big Exit"3:51
2."Good Fortune"3:20
3."A Place Called Home"3:43
4."One Line"3:14
5."Beautiful Feeling"4:00
6."The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore"4:01
7."This Mess We're In"3:57
8."You Said Something"3:19
9."Kamikaze"2:24
10."This Is Love"3:48
11."Horses in My Dreams"5:38
12."We Float"6:07
Total length:47:25
Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea – Australia, UK and Japan bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."This Wicked Tongue"3:42

Singles and promo videos edit

 
"Good Fortune"
"Good Fortune" by PJ Harvey
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Personnel edit

All personnel credits adapted from the album's liner notes.[42]

Musicians

  • PJ Harvey – vocals, guitar (1–3, 5–11), bass (1), keyboards (3, 4, 8, 10), piano (12), djembe (12), maracas (6), e-bow (12), producer, engineer
  • Rob Ellis – drums (2, 3, 6–12), piano (2, 3, 7, 11, 12), tambourine (1, 8, 10), synthesizer (2), keyboards (12), bells (12), harpsichord (1), electric piano (2), vibraphone (4), background vocals (11, 12), producer
  • Mick Harvey – organ (12), bass (2–4, 6–12), drums (1, 4), percussion (3), harmonium (1), keyboards (7, 9, 10), accordion (4), background vocals (11, 12), producer

Guest musicians

Production

Design

Charts edit

Certifications and sales edit

Certifications and sales for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[5] Platinum 70,000^
Belgium (BEA)[64] Gold 25,000*
France (SNEP)[65] Gold 100,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[4] Platinum 316,529[66]
United States — 357,000[16]
Summaries
Worldwide — 1,000,000[17]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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External links edit

  • Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea at Discogs (list of releases)

January 01, 1970
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Stories from the City Stories from the Sea is the fifth studio album by the English singer songwriter PJ Harvey released on 23 October 2000 by Island Records 2 Recorded during March to April 2000 it contains themes of love that are tied into Harvey s affection for New York City 3 Stories from the City Stories from the SeaStudio album by PJ HarveyReleased23 October 2000 2000 10 23 RecordedMarch April 2000StudioLinford Manor Milton Keynes England GenreAlternative rock 1 Length47 25LabelIslandProducerRob Ellis Mick Harvey PJ HarveyPJ Harvey chronologyIs This Desire 1998 Stories from the City Stories from the Sea 2000 Uh Huh Her 2004 Singles from Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Good Fortune Released 13 November 2000 A Place Called Home Released 26 February 2001 This Is Love Released 8 October 2001 The album became the second major commercial success of her recording career following her successful breakthrough To Bring You My Love 1995 Upon its release the album received acclaim from most music critics and earned Harvey several accolades including the 2001 Mercury Prize It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified Platinum in the United Kingdom and Australia 4 5 It is generally regarded as one of her best works 6 7 8 Contents 1 Background and music 2 Release and commercial performance 3 Critical reception 3 1 Accolades 4 Track listing 5 Singles and promo videos 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 8 Certifications and sales 9 References 10 External linksBackground and music editIn 1998 while shooting a film as an actress for Hal Hartley in New York she felt inspired by the city and wrote several songs Some of them ended up on the record 9 In 1999 she chose to live there for nine months 10 However she insisted in interviews it was not my New York album Songs were also written while she was in London or at home in Dorset 10 Stories from the City Stories from the Sea was then recorded at Linford Manor in Milton Keynes in March April 2000 The record was co produced by Mick Harvey Rob Ellis and Harvey and mixed by Victor Van Vugt at the Fallout Shelter The album featured a duet with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the track This Mess We re In as well as backing vocals and keyboards from Yorke on the songs One Line and Beautiful Feeling She had met Yorke in 1992 and they had stayed in contact She said I d long been interested in the idea of somebody else singing a whole song on a record of mine to have a very different dimension brought in by somebody else s voice It adds so much dynamic within the record to have this other character coming in 9 She wanted the record to be more direct It s very different musically to the first couple of albums It s very melodic and it s much rounder and fuller The earlier albums were very black and white in some sense very extreme Melodically this is much more sophisticated than those records It kind of feels like a combination of every album I ve made so far rolled into one 9 The songs were also a musical departure from her previous dark material Harvey told Q in 2001 I wanted everything to sound as beautiful as possible Having experimented with some dreadful sounds on Is This Desire and To Bring You My Love where I was really looking for dark unsettling nauseous making sounds Stories from the City was the reaction I thought No I want absolute beauty I want this album to sing and fly and be full of reverb and lush layers of melody I want it to be my beautiful sumptuous lovely piece of work She did however concede jokingly that it was only pop according to PJ Harvey which is probably as un pop as you can get according to most people s standards 11 Pitchfork compared her voice on the lead single Good Fortune to that of the Pretenders s Chrissie Hynde 12 while the Los Angeles Times observed Her singing often recalls Patti Smith and Siouxsie Sioux artists who like Harvey project a sexuality derived from yet never bound by rock s male sensibilities 13 Release and commercial performance editThe album was released on 24 October 2000 and promoted with a video for the lead single Good Fortune shot at night in streets of New York It reached number 23 on the UK Albums Chart 14 The album was certified Platinum in the UK with sales over 300 000 copies The album debuted at number 42 on the US Billboard 200 chart 15 As of 2003 it has sold 357 000 copies in United States according to Nielsen SoundScan 16 It has also been certified Gold in France and has sold 1 million copies worldwide 17 The album was reissued on vinyl in February 2021 as part of a comprehensive reissue campaign of Harvey s back catalogue A collection of unreleased demos titled Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Demos was also released 18 Critical reception editProfessional ratingsAggregate scoresSourceRatingMetacritic88 100 6 Review scoresSourceRatingAllMusic nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 19 Chicago Sun Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 20 Entertainment WeeklyA 21 Los Angeles Times nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 13 NME9 10 22 Pitchfork5 5 10 2000 23 8 4 10 2021 24 Q nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 25 Rolling Stone nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp 26 Spin8 10 27 The Village VoiceA 7 Stories from the City Stories from the Sea received critical acclaim from music critics At Metacritic which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics the album received an average score of 88 based on 25 reviews 6 NME hailed it as a magnificent life affirming opus by Harvey 22 Robert Christgau called it the best album of her career in his review for Rolling Stone 26 Other critics rated it as only average Spencer Owen of Pitchfork viewed the album as lacking in distinction saying the sheen gets slicker and her music gets duller 12 The publication later however ranked it at number 124 in their The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list in 2009 28 In 2021 they included it in their Rescored list saying that they wished to change their original score of 5 4 to an 8 4 29 Accolades edit The album earned Harvey Brit Award nominations as Best British Female Artist for two years running as well as two Grammy Award nominations for Best Rock Album and Best Female Rock Performance for the single This Is Love 30 For the album Harvey was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize for the third time her previous nominations were for Rid of Me and To Bring You My Love The award ceremony was held on 11 September 2001 Harvey was in Washington D C on that day and witnessed the terrorist attacks on the Pentagon from her hotel room window She was announced as the winner and accepted her award by phone saying It has been a very surreal day All I can say is thank you very much I am absolutely stunned 31 The win made Harvey the first female solo artist to receive the Mercury Prize in the award s history The album was ranked number eight on Rolling Stone s list of the 50 Essential Women in rock Albums 32 In 2002 Q magazine named Stories from the City Stories from the Sea the Greatest Album of All Time by a Female Artist 33 In 2006 the album was chosen by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time 34 In 2009 Pitchfork named the album the 124th Top Album of the 2000s 35 In 2009 NME also placed the album inside their Top 100 Greatest Albums of the Decade at number six 36 The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die 37 Rolling Stone named it the thirty fifth best album of the decade 38 In 2019 the album was ranked 19th on The Guardian s 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list 39 In the 2012 version of Rolling Stone s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time it was ranked at number 431 40 then in the 2020 update it was moved up to number 313 41 Track listing editAll tracks are written by PJ HarveyStories from the City Stories from the Sea Standard editionNo TitleLength1 Big Exit 3 512 Good Fortune 3 203 A Place Called Home 3 434 One Line 3 145 Beautiful Feeling 4 006 The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore 4 017 This Mess We re In 3 578 You Said Something 3 199 Kamikaze 2 2410 This Is Love 3 4811 Horses in My Dreams 5 3812 We Float 6 07Total length 47 25 Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Australia UK and Japan bonus trackNo TitleLength13 This Wicked Tongue 3 42Singles and promo videos edit nbsp Good Fortune source source Good Fortune by PJ Harvey Problems playing this file See media help Good Fortune A Place Called Home This Is Love You Said Something two versions You Said Something Personnel editAll personnel credits adapted from the album s liner notes 42 Musicians PJ Harvey vocals guitar 1 3 5 11 bass 1 keyboards 3 4 8 10 piano 12 djembe 12 maracas 6 e bow 12 producer engineer Rob Ellis drums 2 3 6 12 piano 2 3 7 11 12 tambourine 1 8 10 synthesizer 2 keyboards 12 bells 12 harpsichord 1 electric piano 2 vibraphone 4 background vocals 11 12 producer Mick Harvey organ 12 bass 2 4 6 12 drums 1 4 percussion 3 harmonium 1 keyboards 7 9 10 accordion 4 background vocals 11 12 producer Guest musicians Thom Yorke vocals 4 5 7 keyboards 4 Production Victor Van Vugt engineer mixing 1 11 Head engineer mixing 12 Howie Weinberg mastering Design Rob Crane design Maria Mochnacz design photographyCharts editWeekly charts edit 2000 weekly chart performance for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Chart 2000 Peakposition Austrian Albums O3 Austria 43 43 Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 44 35 Canada Top Albums CDs RPM 45 37 Dutch Albums Album Top 100 46 42 European Albums Music amp Media 47 16 Finnish Albums Suomen virallinen lista 48 31 French Albums SNEP 49 7 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 50 54 Irish Albums IRMA 51 17 Italian Albums FIMI 52 38 Norwegian Albums VG lista 53 8 Swedish Albums Sverigetopplistan 54 10 Swiss Albums Schweizer Hitparade 55 26 UK Albums OCC 56 23 US Billboard 200 57 42 2001 weekly chart performance for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Chart 2001 Peakposition Australian Albums ARIA 58 20 New Zealand Albums RMNZ 59 42 2021 weekly chart performance for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Chart 2021 Peakposition Belgian Albums Ultratop Flanders 44 46 Belgian Albums Ultratop Wallonia 60 77 German Albums Offizielle Top 100 50 24 Portuguese Albums AFP 61 33 Year end charts edit Year end chart performance for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Chart 2001 Position Australian Albums ARIA 62 87 UK Albums OCC 63 173Certifications and sales editCertifications and sales for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Region Certification Certified units sales Australia ARIA 5 Platinum 70 000 Belgium BEA 64 Gold 25 000 France SNEP 65 Gold 100 000 United Kingdom BPI 4 Platinum 316 529 66 United States 357 000 16 Summaries Worldwide 1 000 000 17 Sales figures based on certification alone Shipments figures based on certification alone References edit Battaglia Andy 23 September 2000 P J Harvey New York Dull Sun Ra Cosmos Factory The New York Observer Retrieved 25 June 2015 New Releases For Week Starting October 23 2000 Albums PDF Music Week 21 October 2000 p 26 ISSN 0265 1548 via World Radio History Cinquemani Sal 20 January 2001 Review PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Slant Magazine Retrieved 21 March 2010 a b British album certifications PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea British Phonographic Industry Retrieved 4 July 2012 a b ARIA Charts Accreditations 2007 Albums PDF Australian Recording Industry Association Retrieved 4 July 2012 a b c Reviews for Stories from the City Stories from the Sea by PJ Harvey Metacritic Retrieved 29 September 2009 a b Christgau Robert 28 November 2000 Getting Bizzy The Village Voice New York Archived from the original on 10 September 2014 Retrieved 21 March 2010 Hoard Christian 2004 PJ Harvey In Brackett Nathan Hoard Christian eds The New Rolling Stone Album Guide 4th ed New York Simon amp Schuster pp 368 369 ISBN 0 7432 0169 8 Retrieved 21 March 2010 a b c Appleford Steve 29 October 2000 Checking In With PJ Harvey In a New York State of Mind Los Angeles Times Retrieved 10 May 2016 a b Segal Victoria I m just a raunchy sex queen Is that what you wanted to hear Yes frankly Re introducing PJ Harvey Cavanagh David Dark Star Q No December 2001 a b Owen Spencer 31 October 2000 PJ Harvey Stories From the City Stories From the Sea Pitchfork Retrieved 24 December 2009 a b Nichols Natalie 29 October 2000 Harvey Fuses the Raw and the Lush Los Angeles Times Archived from the original on 23 October 2012 Retrieved 21 March 2010 Mercury Prize 2011 Every Mercury Prize winner ever including PJ Harvey The Guardian 7 September 2011 Retrieved 10 January 2012 Columnist Jay Z Extends Chart Dynasty Billboard Retrieved 21 March 2010 a b PJ Harvey Eyeing Festivals Collaborations Billboard 15 April 2003 Retrieved 19 August 2018 a b Rewind PJ Harvey s Stories from the city stories from the sea Tidal 15 April 2003 Retrieved 19 August 2018 Torres Eric 6 January 2021 PJ Harvey Announces Stories From the City Stories From the Sea Vinyl Reissue Pitchfork Retrieved 17 April 2021 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the City Stories From the Sea robertchristgau com Retrieved 1 August 2011 Note When printed this was a four stars As written it was 4 5 stars Clover Joshua December 2000 PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Spin Vol 16 no 12 New York pp 215 218 Retrieved 23 December 2009 Staff Lists The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s 150 101 Pitchfork 29 September 2009 Archived from the original on 16 October 2009 Retrieved 9 April 2013 Pitchfork Reviews Rescored Pitchfork 5 October 2021 Retrieved 5 October 2021 Artist PJ Harvey National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Retrieved 17 August 2018 PJ Harvey wins Mercury prize BBC News 11 September 2001 Berger Arion George Warren Holly Sheffield Rob Udovitch Mim 31 October 2002 Women in Rock The 50 Essential Albums Rolling Stone No 908 p 135 The otherworldly lass hits the concrete hard sweaty from sex looking for weapons and heading toward hope With Stories Harvey moved from punk to celestial and took you with her List posted at Rock On The Net Rolling Stone The 50 Essential Woman In Rock Albums rockonthenet com Retrieved 2 May 2007 100 Women Who Rock The World Q January 2002 List posted at Rocklist net Q Magazine Lists rocklistmusic co uk Retrieved 24 November 2008 Light Alan 2 November 2006 Stories From The City Stories From The Sea All TIME 100 Albums Time Retrieved 5 May 2007 Phillips Amy 29 September 2009 The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s 124 PJ Harvey Stories From the City Stories From the Sea Pitchfork Pitchfork Media Retrieved 29 September 2009 permanent dead link THE TOP 100 GREATEST ALBUMS OF THE DECADE NME 2000s Robert Dimery Michael Lydon 23 March 2010 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die Revised and Updated Edition Universe ISBN 978 0 7893 2074 2 100 Best Albums of the Decade Rolling Stone New York 9 December 2009 Archived from the original on 6 January 2010 Retrieved 14 May 2013 The 100 best albums of the 21st century The Guardian 13 September 2019 Retrieved 18 September 2019 500 Greatest Albums of All 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Retrieved 6 March 2021 Charts nz PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Hung Medien Retrieved 6 March 2021 Ultratop be PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea in French Hung Medien Retrieved 6 March 2021 Portuguesecharts com P J Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea Hung Medien Retrieved 24 March 2021 ARIA Top 100 Albums for 2001 Australian Recording Industry Association Retrieved 15 November 2021 The Official UK Albums Chart 2001 PDF UKChartsPlus p 6 Retrieved 8 July 2018 Ultratop Goud en Platina albums 2006 Ultratop Hung Medien Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 French album certifications PJ Harvey Stories from the City Stories from the Sea in French Syndicat National de l Edition Phonographique Retrieved 4 July 2012 Paine Andre 26 April 2023 PJ Harvey signs to independent label Partisan after three decades at Island Music Week Retrieved 10 July 2023 External links editStories from the City Stories from the Sea at Discogs list of 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