PJ Harvey Films a Soldier's Funeral for 'Bitter Branches' -- New Video - Spinner

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PJ Harvey's latest album, 'Let England Shake,' is coupled with a series of dramatic and visually striking music videos by acclaimed war photographer Seamus Murphy. The singer-songwriter's new video for 'Bitter Branches,' which premiered at our sister site theHuffington Post, continues their approach of combining fascinating elements of the rocker's home country and her intense, eerie vocals.

"{It} starts out with Keith, the mechanic in Mitcham who keeps my car alive,"Murphy tells Spinner."Attack seagulls were in Sheringham, Norfolk. The crowds I shot crouching under an umbrella outside the exit of a tube station. The inky silhouetted branches in black and white were shot on the banks of the Thames at Westminster, beside the Houses of Parliament."

"The hands and roses and the man's hands comforting a woman were the funeral of a British soldier at Wootton Bassett, killed in Afghanistan,"he continues."I had been there in the summer and noticed the grieving families placing roses on the roof of the hearse -- a moment appropriate to mix with lyrics about war widows."

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