PJ Harvey announces new album and shares lead single, ‘A Child’s Question, August’

PJ Harvey has announced she’ll return with I Inside The Old Year Dying, her upcoming 10th album, as well as sharing the lead single ‘A Child’s Question, August’.

Harvey, whose last album came in 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project, has confirmed that the album will arrive on on July 7 via Partisan.

According to an official release, the album was written over three weeks but stems from a period in 2017 when she believed she had lost her connection with music.

Solace came in the form of Oscar-winning film-maker Steve McQueen, who told Harvey to ignore the “process of writing an album” and instead focus on why she fell in love with “words, images and music”.

Recorded with producers and longtime collaborators Flood and John Parish, the album was reportedly inspired by Harvey’s epic poem, Orlam.

“I think the album is about searching, looking—the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning. Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love—it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open,” she said.

She said:  “I think the album is about searching, looking – the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning. Not that there has to be a message, but the feeling I get from the record is one of love – it’s tinged with sadness and loss, but it’s loving. I think that’s what makes it feel so welcoming: so open.”

Check out the track-listing in full below.

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