26 April 2023
Artwork new album
Only 2 days after she teased new music on her socials PJ HARVEY announced
the arrival of a new LP. It’s her 10th and is named I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING.
It lands on 7 July. Pre-order info here.
PJ: “After many years of work I am very happy to release this collection of new songs.
It was a difficult album to make and took time to find its strongest form, but it has
finally become all I hoped for it to be.”
Press statement: I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK number 1 LP The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds
a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between
recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
Lead single: A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST
This new piece resonates like a slow-downed
track from her ‘Let England Shake‘ album.
Ominous, somber but also quite magnetic.