Unlike Dry, Rid Of Me, PJ Harvey's second album, was produced a lot smoother. However, PJ Harvey had also grown as a band. The contact with her backing band was better than ever and that led to some excellent arrangements. With producer Steve Albini behind the buttons, Harvey played out her musical trump cards. Also on Rid Of Me we hear the dynamic hard-soft differences and well-known textual subjects
… such as hypocrisy (in Me-Jane and 50 Ft. Queenie) and her love for mysticism (in Snake and Man-Size Sextet). Highway 61 Revisted is a small tribute to Bob Dylan. With Rid Of Me, PJ Harvey consolidated her position as one of the most important artistic innovators within rock of the nineties.more