View basket “Uhr Vs. Zeit” 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 Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley Cuckoo Storm Folk | One Little Independent | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 8th March 2024 £23.00 - £25.00 Select options Marry Waterson & Adrian Crowley Cuckoo Storm £23.00 - £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Little Independent Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 8th March 2024 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The Rest Of The Dream Folk | MCA | 1LP Released 12th August 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Nitty Gritty Dirt Band The Rest Of The Dream £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: MCA SKU: NN71101 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 12th August 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Nancy Priddy You’ve Come This Way Before Folk | Modern Harmonic / Sundazed | 1LP Released 21st February 2020 £26.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Nancy Priddy You’ve Come This Way Before £26.00 Genre: Folk Label: Modern Harmonic / Sundazed SKU: LPMH8044 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 21st February 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Seth Lakeman Freedom Fields (Anniversary Edition) Folk | Honour Oak Records | 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released 14th January 2022 £32.00 - £34.00 Select options Seth Lakeman Freedom Fields (Anniversary Edition) £32.00 - £34.00 Genre: Folk Label: Honour Oak Records Formats: 180g, 2LP, Coloured Vinyl, Gatefold Sleeve Released Date: 14th January 2022 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Michael Feuerstack Tambourine Death Bed Folk | Forward Music Group | 1LP Released 1st September 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Michael Feuerstack Tambourine Death Bed £19.00 Genre: Folk Label: Forward Music Group SKU: FMG041LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand Wilson Williams Folk | One Little Independent | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th April 2024 £23.00 - £25.00 Select options Kathryn Williams & Withered Hand Wilson Williams £23.00 - £25.00 Genre: Folk Label: One Little Independent Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Select options Nearly New View Product Quick View Fairport Convention In Real Time Live ’87 Folk | Island | 1LP Released 16th July 2013 £10.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Fairport Convention In Real Time Live ’87 £10.00 Genre: Folk Label: Island SKU: NN57821 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 16th July 2013 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket Nearly New View Product Quick View John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris Facing The Music Folk | Topic Records | 1LP Released 13th June 2014 £5.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris Facing The Music £5.00 Genre: Folk Label: Topic Records SKU: NN70111 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th June 2014 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Samantha Fish Wild Heart Blues | Ruf Records | 1LP Released 4th December 2015 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Samantha Fish Wild Heart £25.00 Genre: Blues Label: Ruf Records SKU: RUF2019 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 4th December 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Gentle Good, The Galargan Folk | Bubblewrap Records | 1LP Released 8th September 2023 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Gentle Good, The Galargan £22.00 Genre: Folk Label: Bubblewrap Records SKU: BWR071 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 8th September 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket See more in Folk Start again
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