Dry

Recorded between September and December 1991 at The Icehouse in Yeovil and released on Too Pure in the UK and Indigo in the US. The first 5,000 LPs and 1,000 CDs included demo versions. Harvey wrote the lyrics, and she and Ellis wrote the music of Joe and Plants and Rags. It reached eleven in the UK and spent five weeks on the chart, but did not enter the US Billboard chart.

NME's Andrew Collins gave it nine out of ten and Entertainment Weekly's Bill Wyman gave it an A+. Pitchfork's Laura Snapes later described it as a volcano and the scorched earth around it. It placed 70th on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best debut albums and 151st on the NME's 500 greatest albums, and a reissue with a demos disc appeared in July 2020.

Pitchfork's retrospective says Too Pure gave Harvey 2,000 pounds to make the album after the single Dress, which came out on the strength of a demo and John Peel's enthusiasm. Harvey told Filter in 2004 that she felt it was probably her only chance, so she tried to get everything on it.