Review: PJ Harvey's 'Is This Desire?' and 'Is This Desire?-Demos'

If there’s any doubt that OK Computer was the most influential album of 1997, just listen to the albums of 1998. With a single flip of the calendar, artists responsible for some of the most organic music of the nineties suddenly adopted Radiohead’s synthesized, sci-fi textures. They still used their guitars, but they tended to costume those guitars in heavy effects or bury them deep in the mix.