"[3] Although the majority of the songs on White Chalk, and Let England Shake's first single, "The Words That Maketh Murder", feature an autoharp,[4] "The Glorious Land" is primarily arranged for guitar, with the accompaniment of electronica beats.

Although initial reports claimed that it was only to be released on 7" vinyl, an official announcement on PJ Harvey's web site[10] and Facebook page[citation needed] confirmed it would also be available as a digital download.

The Independent recognised the political aspect of the song and stated that it "could be a partisan anthem from Vietnam or Palestine or any comparable resistance movement.

This performance was also broadcast live as a webcast[citation needed][13] through a number of online sites,[14] including the concert's promoter Deezer Offline.

The song has been performed live during the three-day festival Rock en Seine, parc de Saint Cloud, 26 August 2017 at 11.00 pm.

[16] Each film incorporates a mix of still photography and video documenting the album's themes "in the manner of classic photographic reportage – recording real & spontaneous situations.

"[17] Murphy travelled throughout England alone "with little equipment", due to a low budget and lack of assistants, and after photographing, directing and producing the films solely by himself, edited the final product in Berlin, Germany with video editor Sebastian Gollek.

It was premiered on 9 March 2011[19] on YouTube and Dailymotion alongside "The Last Living Rose," "The Words That Maketh Murder" and "Let England Shake" as the fourth instalment of the twelve-film project.

The video opens with a silent moving image of a tree in Dorset in October 2010 and then Harvey rehearsing the introduction to the song, as seen in the other films for the album.

He also noted that the "Autumn colours, the sunlight streaming through the trees, the effect of movement during driving, how things changed if I speeded up or slowed down" influenced the video's direction and how some shots were "deliberately overexposed and out of focus" in order "to increase the abstraction.