PJ Harvey has shared the brand new music “I Inside the Old I Dying” from her forthcoming album, I Inside the Old Year Dying. It arrives with a brand new animated video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, who describe the visible as “a brief story about love, dying, and resurrection.” Harvey has additionally introduced a tour of the UK and Europe. Watch the video and discover her tour itinerary under.
“This delicate and exquisite music eluded us till the final day within the studio,” Harvey stated in a press release. “Over the earlier 5 weeks we had tried so many occasions to seize it and failed, and/however then John [Parish] reinvented the texture of the guitar sample. As he was demonstrating it within the management room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed report while I sat subsequent to John making an attempt to work out the right way to sing to it. The end result someway captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I used to be searching for. Within the lyric everyone seems to be ready for the savior to reappear—everybody and the whole lot anticipates the arrival of this determine of affection and transformation. There’s a sense of sexual longing and awakening and of transferring from one realm into one other—from baby to grownup, from life to dying and the everlasting.”
The brand new album is out July 7 through Partisan. The follow-up to 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project options the beforehand shared single “A Child’s Question, August.”
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PJ Harvey:
09-22 Dublin, Eire – 3Olympia Theatre
09-23 Dublin, Eire- 3Olympia Theatre
09-25 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland
09-26 Glasgow, Scotland – Barrowland
09-28 London, England – Roundhouse
09-29 London, England – Roundhouse
10-02 Manchester, England – Albert Corridor
10-03 Manchester, England – Albert Corridor
10-06 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
10-07 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
10-09 Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
10-10 Brussels, Belgium – Cirque Royal
10-12 Paris, France – Olympia
10-13 Paris, France – Olympia
10-15 Zurich, Switzerland – Volkshaus
10-16 Zurich, Switzerland – Volkshaus
10-18 Prague, Czech Republic – Velký sál Lucerna
10-19 Prague, Czech Republic – Velký sál Lucerna
10-21 Berlin, Germany – Admiralspalast
10-22 Berlin, Germany – Admiralspalast
10-24 Warsaw, Poland – Palladium
10-25 Warsaw, Poland – Palladium
10-27 Copenhagen, Denmark – Falkonersalen
10-28 Copenhagen, Denmark – Falkonersalen
10-30 Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
10-31 Oslo, Norway – Sentrum Scene
