Asia Smith September 7th, 2011 - 3:29 PM
On Tuesday night, PJ Harvey was awarded the prestigious British Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize. Awarded annually, the prize recognizes the best U.K. album of the year.
Though the Mercury Prize has been notoriously difficult to predict, with the panel having been known to pick relatively unknown albums in the past, most agree that this year’s winner was well deserved. Having won the Mercury in 2001 for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, Harvey’s win for this year’s highly esteemed Let England Shake makes her the only artist in the history of the prize to have won it twice.
Photo: Raymond Flotat
