{"product_id":"the-pivot-on-which-the-world-turns","title":"The Pivot On Which The World Turns","description":"\u003cp\u003ePolly Paulusma follows up her critically acclaimed 2021 album\u003ci\u003e Invisible Music\u003c\/i\u003e with \u003ci\u003eThe Pivot On Which The World Turns\u003c\/i\u003e out via One Little Independent folk subsidiary Wild Sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAffectionately 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe product of a decade of writing, she tells us that \"the album's title \u003ci\u003eThe Pivot On Which The World Turns \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Sound","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50477377487179,"sku":"1160216","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"White | LP","offer_id":50477378011467,"sku":"1160217","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50477377225035,"sku":"1160215","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/1738efc4-d271-4387-82c0-3aeae3cacbb9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727471137","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/the-pivot-on-which-the-world-turns","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}