PJ Harvey Returns With New Album I Contained in the Previous Yr Dying, Shares Video for New Music: Watch

PJ Harvey has introduced her tenth studio album, I Contained in the Previous Yr Dying. The follow-up to 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Mission is out July 7 by way of Partisan. The album is “a resting area, a solace, a consolation, a balm—which feels well timed for the instances we’re in,” Harvey says in a press launch. Try the Steve Gullick–directed video for “A Little one’s Query, August” beneath.

Recorded with producers Flood and John Parish, her longtime collaborators, the album was impressed by Harvey’s epic poem Orlam. Harvey stated the album options improvisations with the 2 producers. “I believe the album is about looking out, trying—the depth of past love, and looking for which means. Not that there must be a message, however the feeling I get from the document is considered one of love—it’s tinged with unhappiness and loss, nevertheless it’s loving. I believe that’s what makes it really feel so welcoming: so open.”

Harvey has lately been reissuing her discography, together with B-Sides, Demos & Rarities. Final summer season she shared a canopy of Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fireplace,” which featured in Sharon Horgan’s Dangerous Sisters collection.

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