PJ Harvey is back with “I Inside the Old I Dying,” a second look at her upcoming album I’m inside dying year old. Check out the new song below.
Harvey’s latest offering seems particularly ghostly, reminiscent of the atmospheric sounds of 1998 Is this desire? The artist exclaims: “The dead brakes host the bloody beads of the sacred / It is a crown of thorns and it will rise again.” despite of I’m inside dying year old Recorded live, Harvey’s voice sounds miles away from the song’s gentle guitar riff.
“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until our last day in the studio,” Harvey said in a statement. Over the past 5 weeks we’ve tried so many times to pick it up and failed, and/But then John reinvented the feel of the guitar style. While showing it in the control room, Flood handed me a mic and taped the record while I sat next to John trying to figure out how to sing on it. Somehow the result The embodiment of the ethereal and wistful longing I was looking for.”
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Harvey continued, “In the lyric, everyone is awaiting the savior’s reappearance—everyone and everything is anticipating the arrival of this figure of love and transformation. There is a sense of sexual longing, of waking up, of moving from one realm to another—from child to adult, from life to death and to eternity.”
In addition to the new song, Harvey has announced new UK and European tour dates that will take place this fall. Check out all of her upcoming shows below, and get your tickets here.
I’m inside dying year old Arrives July 7th in full via Party Records. Produced by her longtime collaborators John Parish and Flood, it marks Harvey’s tenth studio album overall and follows 2016’s Sixth Hope Demolition Project. Previously, she shared the song “Ask a Kid, August.”
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PJ Harvey 2023 tour dates
09/22 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/23 – Dublin, IE @ 3Olympia Theatre
09/25 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
09/26 – Glasgow, UK @ Barrowland
09/28 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
09/29 – London, UK @ Roundhouse
02/10 – Manchester, UK @ Albert Hall
03/10 – Manchester, UK @ Manchester, UK
06/10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
07/10 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
10/09 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
10/10 – Brussels, BE @ Cirque Royal
10/12 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
10/13 – Paris, FR @ Olympia
10/15 – Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus
10/16 – Zurich, CH @ Volkshaus
10/18 – Prague, CZ @ Velký sál Lucerna
10/19 – Prague, CZ @ Velký sál Lucerna
10/21 – Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast
10/22 – Berlin, DE @ Admiralspalast
10/24 – Warsaw, PL @ Palladium
10/25 – Warsaw, PLPalladium
10/27 – Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen
10/28 – Copenhagen, DK @ Falkonersalen
10/30 – Oslo, NO scenery @ Sentrum
10/31 – Oslo, NO scenery @ Sentrum
