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.
PJ HARVEY, published a newsletter on her social media, revealing that
she was making a new playlist available on her Spotify account. It’ll feature
tracks from her catalogue produced by John Parish and Flood, and comes in
at just under 40 minutes.
Pitchfork said: “The brilliance of Rid of Me is in the vividness and detail with which it captures that Boschian panorama using only blues rhythms, loud-quiet-loud dynamics, Harvey’s voice.”
TUTV Pick: Rid Of Me
Stream the album HERE
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Pitchfork wrote: “This major-label debu is a harrowing song cycle chronicling the death
throes of a relationship. That cycle implies a romantic fatalism, as though every relationship is doomed to end painfully. Gentlemen is both personal and unknowable, cocksure yet deeply troubled.”
TUTV Pick: Debonair
Stream the album HERE
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BBC Music: “Suede’s main sources were Bowie (in Anderson’s wonderfully fey delivery) and
the Smiths. Ironically, Mike Joyce of the Smiths was a member for a short spell, but their bleak chronicles of urban dysfunction, modern love and sexual confusion were never a million miles away from Morrissey’s home ground.”
TUTV Pick: Animal Nitrate
Stream the albumHERE
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AllMusic: “Its best moments — and the Deal sisters’ megawatt charm — end up
outweighing its inconsistencies to make it one of the alternative rock era’s defining
albums.”
TUTV Pick: Cannonball
Stream the albumHERE
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Rolling Stone wrote: “Blur‘s second LP is their secret classic. Coming between the pop-psych shimmer of 1991’s Leisure and the cool Britannia of 1994’s Parklife, the brittle jangle and bitter observations on Modern Life Is Rubbish were near-career-killers.”
AllMusic said: “With their cult following growing, Morphine expanded their audience even further with their exceptional 1994 sophomore effort, Cure for Pain. Whereas their debut, Good, was intriguing yet not entirely consistent, Cure for Pain more than delivered. The songwriting was stronger and more succinct. Cure for Pain was unquestionably one of the best and most cutting-edge rock releases of the ’90s.”
TUTV Pick: Buena
Stream the album HERE
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Rolling Stone wrote: “The album is a lot of things – brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.”
TUTV Pick: All Apologies
Stream the albumHERE
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GuitarCom said: “A Northern Soul may have more choruses, Urban Hymns may have shifted 10 million copies and made them Wigan’s only global superstars, but Verve‘s (the ‘The’ came later) celestial debut A Storm In Heaven is the guitarist’s choice. Nick McCabe’s enveloping waves of reverb and tape delay, in turn soothing and savage, moved producer John Leckie to conclude “To some extent, A Storm In Heaven is his record”.
TUTV Pick: Slide Away
Stream the album HERE
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An inspired and eclectic rock n’ roll album of booze- and brass-fueled passion, raising a colorful glass to friendship and fun in the darkest of times. Record release party with Rum Bar Records, Erica Mantone, and The Devil’s Twins goes down tonight at Faces in Malden.
Stream/buy here…
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“Four guys with russian drinking habits, with an endless love for rock n roll acts like Girlschool, Motorhead, Tank and Venom. They all bow to the altar of little Richard and totally obey Scandinavian Hardcore from the 80s. This is what happens when those 4 guys meet up, write some tunes, and finally record em. Like it or not, we dont give a dog’s ass. We are the hawks of war and our prayers go’es for all out of it.”
Black gospel/spiritual band The Golden State Quartetreleased the first
known version back in 1946. Afterward, a cast of superstars including Elvis
Presley, Odetta, Johnny Cash, and many more covered the song.
Now it’s PJ HARVEY‘s turn. She recorded her version for the soundtrack
of Bad Sisters, a black comedy/thriller series running on Apple TV+.
Harvey turned the traditional into a vintage Harvey song.
This 59-track collection spans decades, with most of the songs previously
unavailable physically or digitally, and 14 tracks either previously unreleased
or in previously unreleased versions. It’s the final release in her reissue program.
PJ Harvey: “It was a very enjoyable day spent recording the version of Leonard Cohen’s
“Who By Fire” for Bad Sisters. I had spoken to Sharon Horgan in advance of the recording session, so I understood why she felt the song’s lyric was so perfect for the series, but also understood what nuances of Leonard’s performance she most loved, and therefore what
to try and recapture but in my own way.”
