PJ Harvey has released a second song, “I Inside the Old I Dying” from her forthcoming album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’.
On the song PY Harvey says: “This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio. 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 the 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 song is accompanied by an animated music video, directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña.
Cristóbal and Joaquín say: “We envisioned the video as a short story about love, death, and resurrection. We imagined that the video can be seen as a little fairy tale and also as an intimate ritual. We wanted to keep the animation in a state of scenic and material rawness, as if the elements we see are not characters or props, but artifacts and talismans that are part of a ceremony.”
The album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’ will be released on July 7th via Partisan Records. It’s is rooted in improvisation: spontaneous performances and ideas, recorded at the moment of their creation. This highly anticipated release is produced by long-time collaborators Flood and John Parish.
Harvey has also announced a run of tour dates in the UK – beginning in late September with shows in Dublin, Glasgow, London and Manchester.
PJ HARVEY – NEW SONG: “I INSIDE THE OLD I DYING”
STREAM ON ALL SERVICES HERE || WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
NEW ALBUM: ‘I INSIDE THE OLD YEAR DYING’
OUT 7 JULY ON PARTISAN RECORDS
PRE-ORDER HERE
fatured photo by Steve Gullick
