1. Girl
2. Rope Bridge Crossing
3. City Of No Sun
4. That Was My Veil
5. Urn With Dead Flowers In A Drained Pool
6. Civil War Correspondent
7. Taut
8. Un Cercle Autour Du Soleil
9. Heela
10. Is That All There Is?
11. Dance Hall At Louse Point
12. Lost Fun Zone

Musicians:
PJ Harvey - voc; 
Nick Harvey - org, b; 
John Parish - g, perc, dr

After releasing the '90s rock masterpiece To Bring You My Love, Polly Jean Harvey deflected the immense pressure of a follow-up by teaming with guitarist John Parish for this 1996 collaboration. Often mistakenly credited as an appearance on Parish's record (an artist who had never released a major-label solo record during his long career as a sideman, writer, and producer), Harvey's contribution to Dance Hall at Louse Point is at least equal to Parish's. Not only did the singer co-produce the record, she wrote all the record's lyrics and her vocal performances figure very prominently on Dance Hall at Louse Point, which was released in America on the singer's label home, Island. Artists always struggle with follow-ups to monumental records that can become bigger than the performers themselves. Harvey dealt with the pressure by releasing a record that wouldn't be recognized as her own, while she spent the customary multi-year absence after what will be remembered as her best recording. That's not to suggest that this is strictly Harvey's record either. Besides writing all the music and playing virtually every instrument, Parish displays a knack for sonic texturing that echoes Harvey's 1995 classic on tracks like "Civil War Correspondent," with its dark organ pads providing the perfect stage for Harvey's bold theatrics. Fans and critics heaping praise on To Bring You My Love producer Flood might be surprised how the Parish- and Harvey-produced "Heela" heads into its own grating, layered guitar crescendo that matches "Long Snake Moan" with its groaning vocals and relentless slide guitars. Dance Hall at Louse Point is in no way a strict duplication of Parish and Harvey's prior work together on To Bring You My Love. Listeners more appreciative of Harvey's earlier work will relish the songstress' squeals, whispers, and howls over jangling atonal guitar figures and blues motifs that recall Dry and Rid of Me. Fellow members of the Bristol music "tribe," Parish and Harvey share more than studio experience and art rock influences; they possess uncommon instinct and a genius-level connection to rock's bluesy, isolated, threatening soul. This collaboration records the artists during a time when their portal to that strange entity was at its most dilated. --- Vincent Jeffries, allmusic.com

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1 	Add To The List 	
2 	Sorry For Your Loss 	
3 	The March 	
4 	Let's Go 	
5 	Type 1 	
6 	Rachel 	
7 	Buffalo 	
8 	Kireru 	
9 	Le Passé Devant Nous 	
10 	Carver's House 	
11 	The First Star

John Parish - Composer, Instrumentation, Mixing, Producer, Vocals 
Aldous Harding, Giorgia Poli, Giovanni Ferrario, Jean-Marc Butty,
 Jeremy Hogg, Marta Collica, PJ Harvey -  	Instrumentation, Vocals 

Producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist John Parish has spent the 2010s scoring independent films and recording soundtracks, and producing for others, from PJ Harvey (whose road band he directs), Rokia Traore, and Jenny Hval to Tom Brousseau, This Is the Kit, and Aldous Harding. Bird Dog Dante is his first proper vocal album since 2009's collaboration with Harvey on A Woman a Man Walked By and his own Once Upon a Little Time. The two soundtrack projects issued since, She, A Chinese (2010), and Screenplay: The Film Music of John Parish (2013), have nonetheless informed this wonderfully weird venture. Parish wrote and recorded these songs in a variety of locations, often while on the road, in keeping with his long established aesthetic M.O. He covered the seams in this approach (somewhat) by mixing it all in a ten-day session between bouts of touring with Harvey's extended band in support of her Hope Six Demolition Project.

While traveling, Parish often ran lyric ideas past Harvey. One such exercise was undertaken for this set's first single, "Sorry for Your Loss," a song dedicated to the memory of their mutual friend Mark Linkous who took his own life in 2010. Upon completion, Parish decided it would work best as a duet as the pair deliver it here -- its lyrics and melody directly relate to the deep, isolating depression that plagued Linkous. Its eerie electronic whine is answered by a slightly de-tuned strummed banjo (a favorite instrument of Linkous' and one he used often), as Jeremy Hogg's stinging, gated guitar underscores the refrain: "The sun never felt colder/The window rattled and I wondered if you'd just passed over…." Hogg and Parish deliver the oddly tender and utterly ironic "Type 1" -- a paean to diabetes -- as a duo. "Rachel" is delivered as an early rock & roll song in duet with Harding, while Parish plays everything else -- including trombone. The cinematic element follows in four consecutive tunes, the suspenseful "Buffalo" contains a buried-in-the-mix chanted choral vocal with a full band, and "Kireru" is delivered via three keyboards playing oscillated drones that open onto church-like passages, as Hogg's spiky guitar adds a layered, trebly spaghetti western feel. Parish takes it solo on piano and electronics for "Le Passé Devant Nous" and "Carver's House." The former is a minimal sketch whose elemental white noise is as much a part of its structure as the inquisitive keys; the latter's skeletal piano is answered by field recordings and a rhythm created from an unidentifiable sample. For all its moodiness, Bird Dog Dante closes on the sunny tip with the hooky, lo-fi pop of "The First Star," with its earworm chorus and striated vocal harmonies between Parish and keyboardist Marta Collica. While it's unlikely that Bird Dog Dante will win him many new fans, its curious, intimate, casual approach will certainly appeal to those who have embraced Parish's earlier -- and no less idiosyncratic -- recordings. ---Thom Jurek, AllMusic Review

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