A Child’s Question, August announces album I Inside The Old Year Dying

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PJ Harvey, 2023. - ©Steve Gullick

PJ Harvey, 2023. – ©Steve Gullick

PJ Harvey has released a song, A Child’s Question, August, and has announced her new album, I Inside The Old Year Dying. The alternative musician’s tenth studio album will be released on July 7th and was produced by longtime musical collaborators John Parish and Flood. First comes the decoupling with music video.

Steve Gullick directed it, who was also responsible for two clips that recently teased the now announced album and showed Harvey with the two producers in the studio. “The studio was set up for live performances and that was all we did,” says the singer of the creation process. “I think the album is about the quest, the intensity of first love and the quest for meaning,” continued Harvey. “Not that there needs to be a message, but the feeling the record makes me feel is one of love – it’s filled with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it so inviting: so open.”

Last year PJ Harvey brought 59 B-sides, demos & rarities out as a compilation. An album by the 53-year-old was last released in 2016 with “The Hope Six Demolition Project”. In the meantime she published the volume of poetry “Orlam‘, which was edited by Scottish poet Don Paterson and is a major influence on the upcoming full-length.

I Inside The Old Year Dying Track Listing:

  1. Prayer at the Gate
  2. Autumn Term
  3. Lonesome Tonight
  4. Seem to 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

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