Pj Harvey - I Inside The Old Year Dying
- Prayer at the Gate
- Autumn Term
- Lwonesome Tonight
- Seem an I
- The Nether-edge
- I Inside the Old Year Dying
- All Souls
- A Child's Question, August
- I Inside the Old I Dying
- August
- A Child's Question, July
- A Noiseless Noise
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Tracks
- 12
The story behind PJ Harvey's tenth album - I Inside the Old Year Dying - goes back six years to the end of touring around her previous record The Hope Six Demolition Project, and Harvey's keen feeling that somewhere in the endless grueling cycle of albums and shows, she had lost her connection with music itself. Eventually (thankfully), she once again began to feel pulled in the direction of new songs, music, and sounds. The resulting body of work is audacious and original even by the standards of an artist who has always ensured that each phase of her progress has taken her somewhere new. Anchored by her nearly thirty-year creative partnership with her long-term musical associates John Parish and Flood, Harvey set out with an explicit mission: to avoid anything reminiscent of their musical past. She draws on the creative freedom she had felt in past musical work on soundtracks, and in the theater. Her perspective shifts away from the big themes of previous albums, towards something more intimate, eerie, and human. Meanwhile, her voice has become, if anything, a more intensely pure instrument over the years. With I Inside the Old Year Dying, Harvey builds a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life's opposites, - between recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
- Prayer at the Gate
- Autumn Term
- Lwonesome Tonight
- Seem an I
- The Nether-edge
- All Souls
- A Child’s Question, August
- I Inside the Old I Dying
- August
- A Child’s Question, July
- A Noiseless Noise
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Tracks
- 11
PJ Harvey's tenth studio album I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK #1 album 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. PJ Harvey has commanded attention since the start of her career and is the only musician to have been awarded the UK's Mercury Music Prize more than once, winning first in 2001 for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and again in 2011 for Let England Shake. An accomplished poet and visual artist, as well as a musician and songwriter, her work is striking in it's originality: vivid, absorbing and distinct. Since the release of The Hope Six Demolition Project, which went to #1 album in her native UK, she has contributed compositions for stage and screen; most recently for Sharon Horgan's acclaimed Bad Sisters mini-series. Throughout her career, Harvey has always ensured that each phase of her progress has taken her somewhere new, but her latest music is audacious and original even by her own standards. Full of a sense of a cyclical return to new beginnings, it combines it's creative daring with a sense of being open and inviting, in the most fascinating way. The new songs, Harvey says, offer ""a resting space, a solace, a comfort, a balm - which feels timely for the times we're in.""
