I Inside The Old Year ... - Pj Harvey - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

PJ Harvey has just released her first single A Child's Question, August of her
upcoming album I Inside The Old Year Dying to be released on Partisan Records.
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.
In a career that can often seem one long radical departure, it may be hard to
imagine how PJ Harvey might still surprise. I Inside The Old Year Dying answers
that question from its opening bars. After the large-scale, future-facing, often
raucous anthems of The Hope Six Demolition Project, it might not be unexpected
that Harvey’s songwriting would take a more inward direction. Few, though, will
have anticipated so minimalist a turn, and into quite so eerie a landscape: indeed,
it takes the eye a moment to adjust to the light, and the ear to the silence.
Such an intimate tone would have been impossible to achieve without Harvey
contracting her band to her most trusted, long-term musical associates: Flood and
John Parish. The pared-down-to-the-bone instrumentation actively clears a space
for itself: first impressions are of an impromptu gig for an audience primarily
composed of ghosts and trees. For all the polish of the final results, each song
seems to have the unity of a single-cell organism, more grown than written: no
surprise, then, to discover that I Inside was recorded live in a single room, with
the songs often beginning as collective improvisations between Polly, John, Flood
and Cecil with his cut-up and treated field recordings, all ably captured by Rob
Kirwan, who previously recorded both Hope Six and Let England Shake.

Tracklist

1. Prayer At the Gate
2. Autumn Term
3. Lwonesome Tonight
4. Seem an I
5. The Nether-Edge
6. I Inside the Old Year Dying
7. All Souls
8. A Child's Question, August
9. I Inside the Old I Dying
10. August
11. A Child's Question, July
12. A Noiseless Noise

Label: Partisan | Origin: Holland

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