PJ Harvey has been awarded the Uncut Music Award for her album ‘Let England Shake’.

The album, released in February 2011, has been one of Harvey’s most critically acclaimed to date, already winning her 2011’s Mercury Music Prize earlier in the year.

To win the Uncut Music Award, Harvey beat off competition from Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and critics’ darlings Radiohead.

Read a review of ‘Let England Shake’ here.