PJ Harvey’s new album has been released today – revisit our review and stream it right here.
“Out of the 20th century, who could a non-conformist female musician see as a role model?”
“Could it be Sister Rosetta Tharpe? Patti Smith? Kate Bush? If things were all her way, it certainly wouldn’t have been Polly Jean Harvey, the art-school polymath who emerged around the same time as grunge but has spent a subsequent career smashing mirrors and forever changing course.”
“PJ Harvey’s last album, 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project, appeared to buck that trend at least in the making, as the singer offered a rare demystification of the recording process to anyone who wanted to watch from the other side of some one-way glass.”
Since then, other than working on a handful of film and TV scores, any window into her life has returned to its normal opaque self – a state where interviews remain at a premium, explanations even more so. This leads to I Inside The Old Year Dying; a taut, strange record for our constantly unsettling times.
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