Anyone wondering why PJ Harvey is so concerned with the fact that “they’re going to put a Walmart here” (rather than an ASDA) would be well advised to fall down a Wikipedia rabbit-hole that starts with the HOPE VI project goes to the Defensible Space Theory, and then on to HBO’s Show Me a Hero which I heard was good.
That defensible space stuff has me itching to watch High Rise which, at the time of writing, has just come out in cinemas.
Good to have new PJ Harvey stuff.