View basket “Expletive Delighted” has been added to your basket. The Pivot On Which The World Turns Polly Paulusma SKU: 23.00 23.00 £23.00 £23.00 Genre: Folk Label: Wild Sound Released Date: 30th September 2022 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear The Pivot On Which The World Turns quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Polly Paulusma follows up her critically acclaimed 2021 album ‘Invisible Music’ with ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’ out via One Little Independent folk subsidiary Wild Sound. Affectionately shortened to ‘Pivot’, the album marks a return to her singular brand of insightful songs that, in their subject matter, roam around the badlands of love, sex and parenthood, death and grief, failure and success, violence and healing. Most poignantly the album focuses on the roles of women, in our lives and across history, from a variety of perspectives. ‘Pivot’ swings from the warm, blues-inspired Americana of ‘Back Of Your Hand’ and ‘Dirty Circus’, to the more traditional folk of ‘Brambles and Briars’ and ‘Robin’, as well as poetic, pop curiosities such as ‘Snakeskin’ and the effervescent ‘Luminary’, all of which combine to make up Polly’s most sonically adventurous album to date. As always, she delights in the telling of stories, with littered spoken word aiding her as she utilizes infectious melodies and a light delivery to explore her characters. The product of a decade of writing, she tells us that “the album’s title ‘The Pivot On Which The World Turns’ is a corruption of a moment in the Russian novel Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, in which Stepan Arkadyitch knowingly confesses, “women, my boy, they’re the pivot everything turns upon”. In context, Stepan and Levin are discussing romantic relationships, but I saw wider interpretations of this epithet”. Each track on the LP examines a different aspect of life that women play, and “charts a development for me through all the roles I pivot on in a day, a week, a year, a decade”. ‘Snakeskin’ represents the daughter, ‘Back Of Your Hand’ is the love interest, ‘Dirty Circus’ the mother and so on. “I truly believe, having travelled the last few years, having endured grief and horror and having discovered and pivoted on all these people that I am capable of being, that by learning how to love, and re-learning, and learning again, so many of the wartier and knobblier parts of me can be forgiven, and translated into something better”. Artist Polly Paulusma Genre Folk Label Wild Sound Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Snakeskin Back Of Your Hand Dirty Circus Luminary Bracklesham Bay Any Other Way Brambles And Briars The Big Sky Tired Old Eyes Sullen Volcano Robin Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Polly Paulusma and more from Folk View Product Quick View Polly Paulusma Fingers & Thumbs 200g DMM Folk | One Little Independent | 200g, 2LP Released 13th September 2008 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Polly Paulusma Fingers & Thumbs 200g DMM £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Little Independent SKU: TPLP462DMM Formats: 200g, 2LP Released Date: 13th September 2008 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Polly Paulusma Leaves From The Family Tree Folk | Diverse Records | 180g, 1LP Released 31st August 2013 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Polly Paulusma Leaves From The Family Tree £21.00 Genre: Folk Label: Diverse Records SKU: DIV047LP Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 31st August 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nic Jones Canadee-I-O Folk | Topic Records | 7", Single Released 15th September 2014 £6.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nic Jones Canadee-I-O £6.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: STOP2411 Formats: 7", Single Released Date: 15th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Fernweh, The The Fernweh Folk | Skeleton Key | 1LP Released 30th November 2018 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Fernweh, The The Fernweh £15.00 Genre: Folk Label: Skeleton Key SKU: 0190295528065 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th November 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nearly New View Product Quick View Friedemann Uhr Vs. 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