PJ Harvey has shared the new song “I Inside the Old I Dying” from her forthcoming album I Inside the Old Year Dying. It arrives with a new animated video directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, who describe the visual as “a short story about love, death, and resurrection.” Harvey has also announced a UK and European tour. Watch the video and find her tour itinerary below.
“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio,” Harvey said in a statement. “Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, and/but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed record whilst I sat next to John trying to work out how to sing to it. The result somehow captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I was looking for. In the lyric everyone is waiting for the savior to reappear—everyone and everything anticipates the arrival of this figure of love and transformation. There is a sense of sexual longing and awakening and of moving from one realm into another—from child to adult, from life to death and the eternal.”
The new album is out July 7 via Partisan. The follow-up to 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project features the previously shared single “A Child’s Question, August.”
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PJ Harvey:
09-22 Dublin, Ireland – 3Olympia Theatre
09-23 Dublin, Ireland- 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 Hall
10-03 Manchester, England – Albert Hall
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