PJ Harvey

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PJ Harvey’s career has always commanded attention. A multi-instrumentalist, she is primarily a vocalist, guitarist and pianist.

Her catalogue features ten studio albums, most recently 2023’s Grammy-nominated <a href="spotify:album:2ik9ifrDdzxRsJU9fy9TFc" data-name="I Inside the Old Year Dying">I Inside the Old Year Dying</a>. Musicians she has collaborated with include <a href="spotify:artist:4CvTDPKA6W06DRfBnZKrau" data-name="Thom Yorke">Thom Yorke</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1RM5gp0RFfjpJhCYFPB30p" data-name="Nick Cave">Nick Cave</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6hhA8TKRNryM8FNzqCqdDO" data-name="Tricky">Tricky</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:64tVHZVSAZhDEiOJxnb6hE" data-name="Sparklehorse">Sparklehorse</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:03xb2BUdIFzuRQ6o88yfCB" data-name="Josh Homme">Josh Homme</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1UAM4fJFTeyMZbhTVUKiXk" data-name="John Parish">John Parish</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1S8bX9opXYLkPIp7WPhySa" data-name="Pascal Comelade">Pascal Comelade</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2vaRNo2C9WlMNgKN2LJOL4" data-name="Gordon Gano">Gordon Gano</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7axpCYU6YisPgZQXYzNzis" data-name="Ramy Essam">Ramy Essam</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1fpXM23IoNckJ7NDAm8YJQ" data-name="Mark Lanegan">Mark Lanegan</a>.

She is the only artist to have been awarded the Mercury Music Prize twice, in 2001 for <a href="spotify:album:0cJAiqO1obIJQGf4YI31q4" data-name="Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea">Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea</a>, and 2011 for <a href="spotify:album:2JfiVMvVhdueC48EmskS7t" data-name="Let England Shake">Let England Shake</a>. Accolades include an MBE for services to music, an Honorary Degree in Music at Goldsmiths, a BAFTA, eight Brit Award nominations, eight Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. She has authored two books of poetry, The Hollow of the Hand and Orlam.

In theatre she scored for director Ivo Van Hove’s 2018 adaptation of All About Eve, and has worked on numerous productions by acclaimed director Ian Rickson, including 2024’s <a href="spotify:album:6NXmIaLAsmdZtwoFDLSr1o" data-name="London Tide (World Premiere Recording)">London Tide (World Premiere Recording)</a>, and Tom Morris&#39; Othello in 2025. In television she composed the score for the drama <a href="spotify:album:3Dna7UkzlTppexU33aESht" data-name="The Virtues (Television Series Soundtrack)">The Virtues (Television Series Soundtrack)</a> and co-composed with Tim Phillips for <a href="spotify:album:0v5GxNe1CpdR32VyePfWOE" data-name="Bad Sisters (Original Series Soundtrack)">Bad Sisters (Original Series Soundtrack)</a>, winning a BAFTA for <a href="spotify:album:0s3OVD9QWfP6cEdG1K5FGj" data-name="Bad Sisters (Season 2) [Original Series Soundtrack]">Bad Sisters (Season 2) [Original Series Soundtrack]</a>. Her music was used throughout series 2 of Peaky Blinders.

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A selection of tracks, chosen by PJ Harvey for Spotify.

Quiet Place

Summer's Almost Gone

Petals Have Fallen

I Dream of Jeannie

Death Singing

PJ Harvey - Complete Playlist

Los Angeles

As a musical accompaniment to the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 here are some of the most fascinating and beautiful pieces of music I came across this year.

A Colour Field

Clair De Lune

A Child's Guide to Good and Evil

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God, what a f-ing genius! She never dissapoints even after so many years. Every album is another gem.

I don&#39;t know how, but this manages to be entirely new territory while also being classic PJ.

I don't know how, but this manages to be entirely new territory while also being classic PJ.

PJ “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 [Parish] 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.” - Pitchfork

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“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 [Parish] 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.”
- Pitchfork

What a genius she is, this is like the haunted hybrid child of White Chalk and Is This Desire.

The deep bass of Colin Morgan. Oh. My. Goodness. ❤❤❤

The deep bass of Colin Morgan. 

Oh. My. Goodness. ❤❤❤

Music to either sadly look back upon life or conjure up an ethereal forest creature.

This is seriously haunting, I can&#39;t stop listening to it

This is seriously haunting, I can't stop listening to it

The goosebumps that overtake me when I know I’m about to hear a new PJ Harvey chorus.

&quot;after all this time ?&quot; &quot;Always !&quot;

Saw her in Melbourne (Australia, mate!) last night. A flawless performance of wailing, wistful, passionate, imploring, empowering brilliance. She and her equally flawless band played for 90 minutes practically without pause and then did two encores, and then PJ thanked us for our many years of support when all we wanted to do was thank HER for her many years of creative exceptionalism that STILL makes our lives blossom and bloom. If you ever get a chance to see and hear PJ... do not hesitate!

It’s incredible to see how PJ Harvey has evolved over the years. She began raw, punk, primal, sexual, unhinged—yet now she embodies a refined intellectual presence. And still, at her core, nothing has changed. Her soul remains intact, and we’re all still here, listening closely, because she’s a gift—one who will always have something vital to say.

Listened 6 times and it sounds like an old friend already. That&#39;s PJ Harvey for you. Love the warbling synth running throughout.

Listened 6 times and it sounds like an old friend already. That's PJ Harvey for you. Love the warbling synth running throughout.

Never repeats, never explains. She’s a singularity in a business obsessed field, I love that she doesn’t kowtow to the market, &amp; simply EXISTS &amp; does whatever she wants. Thank you for that gift, there are many artists, but the inspiration is FOREVER. ❤️

Never repeats, never explains. She’s a singularity in a business obsessed field, I love that she doesn’t kowtow to the market, & simply EXISTS & does whatever she wants. Thank you for that gift, there are many artists, but the inspiration is FOREVER. ❤️

With a career spanning decades, and praises from artists such as kurt cobain and dave grohl, bjork and nick cave, this talented artist deserves a worthy place in the rock and roll hall of fame

I&#39;m unsure of what is being communicated to me, but it&#39;s affecting me deeply.

I'm unsure of what is being communicated to me, but it's affecting me deeply.

one of the greatest living songwriters, never runs out of ideas. i adore her

The world would be such a poor place without PJ

The later part of her career to me feels like witnessing the silent but breathtaking beauty of a distant dying star

What I love about her is that she&#39;s not afraid to make music that is not instantly accessible, it can take many listens to get into a song but when you do it&#39;s like discovering a hidden gem. Hope that makes sense.

What I love about her is that she's not afraid to make music that is not instantly accessible, it can take many listens to get into a song but when you do it's like discovering a hidden gem. Hope that makes sense.

It&#39;s a weird relationship that I have with PJ&#39;s music. I don&#39;t go out of my way to seek it out, but when I come across it, I stay awhile and let it resonate with me. ❤

It's a weird relationship that I have with PJ's music. I don't go out of my way to seek it out, but when I come across it, I stay awhile and let it resonate with me. ❤

True master at her craft. I love you Polly Jean.

PJ Harvey est la meilleure artiste féminine de ce siècle.

I can only hope that this younger generation can grow to see how impactful her art has been.

Ach wir haben vergessen, wir sind auch noch in Verantwortung  für Majore mit Lizenzen, 😂

Day&#39;s gone, everything is gone, we are old and naked..

Day's gone, everything is gone, we are old and naked..

never in my days did I think that woman in the pink jumpsuit at glastonbury (I was there) could be the same woman who wrote &quot;Sheila na gig&quot; (a song I still adore) and this...madness, you are a true talent, do whatever you want, I want to listen!

never in my days did I think that woman in the pink jumpsuit at glastonbury (I was there) could be the same woman who wrote "Sheila na gig" (a song I still adore) and this...madness, you are a true talent, do whatever you want, I want to listen!

Human voice is the most amazing instrument.

Ending

As a musical accompaniment to the end of 2024 and the beginning of 2025 here are some of the most fascinating and beautiful pieces of music I came across this year.

I look forward to the year ahead and continuing to work on my next project, as well as concluding the ‘I Inside’ tour in Australia and Japan.

Thank you to those of you who came to see the live shows, and thank you all for your support and interest throughout the year.

I wish you a peaceful holiday and a wonderful year ahead.

Polly

Live in concert

"Here is a playlist I made to say farewell to 2023." - Polly

I Wanted to Leave

I Inside the Old Year Dying

Music Videos - HD Restored

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‘I Inside the Old I Dying’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña

Produced by Catalina Vergara
Production Assistant: Nina Salvador
A production of Diluvio, Globo Rojo, Pista B

Art and Animation: Francisco Visceral, Francisco Schultz, Trinidad Santibañez, Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León
Art and Animation Assistants: Paolo Caro, Isidora Rojas, Laura Donoso, Lluvia Anaïs, Lucas Pacheco, Javiera Sandoval, Rocío Álvarez, Yair Gómez, Julieta Morales, Samuel Lagunas, Natalia Geisse, Joaquín France, Dalia Cociña, Matías Yunge and Fernanda Padilla

Data Management: Paolo Caro
Editing and Post Production: Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña

As the Dog: Klaus

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, electric guitar
John Parish - acoustic guitar, drums, vocals
Cecil - keyboards, field recordings
Colin Morgan - backing vocals

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
The beech buds wait.
The aish buds wait.
The frogs and twoads in lagwood holes 
and hedgehogs in their leafy ditch, 
all waiting for His kingdom.

The eth waits. 
The dead brakes 
host the holly’s bloody beads;
they are His crown of thorns 
and He will rise again.

Oh Wyman, Oh Wyman.
Unray I for en.

Slip from my childhood skin;
I zing through the forest, 
I hover in the holway
and laugh into the leaves.

Oh Wyman, Oh Wyman.
Unray I for en.

I laugh in the leaves 
and merge to meesh,  
just a charm in the woak 
with the chalky children
of evermore.

Executive Producer: Sumit Bothra
Management : Sumit Bothra, Brian Message, Olivia Plunket for ATC Management 


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PJ Harvey - I Inside the Old I Dying (Official Video)

‘A Child’s Question, August’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Film by Steve Gullick & PJ Harvey
Commissioned by John Moule

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, guitar
John Parish - drums, synth, piano, Rhodes
Cecil - keyboards
Ben Whishaw - backing vocals

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
Starling swarms will soon be lorn.                            
Rooks tell stories ’cross the corn.        
Goocoo soon will ’es leave make.
Swifts abandon autumn’s ache.
What says dunnick, drush or dove?
Love Me Tender? Tender love?

Hear the grinding wheel-bird grieve.      
Grief unknits my ravelled sleeve. 
Death of zummer, death of play,      
Waxing night and dwindling day.
Help me dunnick, drush and dove.
Love Me Tender. Tender love. 

Executive Producer: Sumit Bothra
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PJ Harvey - A Child's Question, August (Official Video)

‘Lwonesome Tonight’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Visuals by Steve Gullick

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, acoustic guitar
John Parish - drums, vocals, synth
Cecil - bass keyboard

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
Hark the greening of the eth
Curl-ed ferns yet to uncurl
Hark the zingen of the birds
Gurrel yearns yet to un-girl

Beech and aller, woak and birch, 
Biddle, bull-head, squirrel’s drey 
Willow, aspen, elder, larch,                                           
Soldier-King on Maundy day

In her satchel, Pepsi fizz,
Peanut-and-banana sandwiches,  
For this man her shepherd is. 
Parts her bready-lips:    

Are you Elvis? Are you God?                                
Jesus sent to win my trust?
Love Me Tender are his words,
As I have loved you, so you must…

Thrice she draws her lips to kiss            
Mouthing for his mouth in vain 
Thrice her lwonesome kisses miss   
My love, will you come back again?     


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PJ Harvey -  Lwonesome Tonight (Official Visualiser)

‘Seem an I’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Director - Colm Bairéad
Commissioner  - John Moule
Exec. Producer - Rosie Brear
Exec. Producer - Katie Lambert
Production Company - MrMr Films
Producer - Ella Woolgar
Production Assistant - Sarah Dines
Production Runner - Jenny Huzell
Director of Photography - Kate Mcullough
Focus Puller - Piotr Perlinski
Loader - Jos Bitelli
Camera Trainee - Anastassia Radtsenko
Grip - Kylie Stubbs
Gaffer - Jonathan Smith
1st AD - Freddie Wright
2nd AD - Billy French
Quad supplied by 99 Cars
Quad Vehicle - James Woodbridge
Quad Vehicle - Steve Peters
Quad Vehicle - Andrew Morgan
Stylist - Gus Sharp
Styling Assistant - Ruth Mckeand
Hair And Makeup Artist - Jess Summer
Minibus Driver - Mark Righaleto
Minibus Drier - Gary Le Croissette
Kit Van Driver - Gailany Ibrahim
Camera equipment supplied by Panavision
Catering  - Dolce Passione

Casting Director - Lane Casting
Woman - Ruth Wilson

Editor - Sara Faulkner
Edit Producer - Sarah Adewunmi
Edit House - Stitch

Grade - Gary Curran
Post Producer - Emma Leddy
Post House - Outer Limits

Special thanks to Kennel Farm, Farm Locations and Panavision

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Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, bass clarinet
John Parish - drums, vocals, electric guitar, Rhodes, trombone
Flood - synth
Cecil - field recordings

Produced by Flood & John Parish

LYRICS:
 
Bedraggled angels blethered 
across Eleven Acres

as belling from the bwoneyard
a-rangled round the archet

Her fingernails a-ripped
from hauling clay-filled fists

out of the river’s edges
for pots with happy voices

Conzum-ed with twanketen
that’s only eased by scratching

whisp-words slim as thistles
or a sickly chicken’s whistles

Seem an I a childhood
of quartere’il and wormwood

of not-friends running nowhere
of vog a-veiling elsewhere

Till in the vaulted barn
queer-lit by dummet zun

she knew herself a vessel 
fit for a different wordle

where footsteps must be lwone
and barefoot upon stones

and the northwind’s ever-host
gives edges to the ghosts

Seem an I a childhood
of quartere’il and wormwood

of not-friends running nowhere
of vog a-veiling elsewhere

of mother’s voice not-calling
of corrugated iron

of devil’s birds and whiskey              
of chilver hogs and fleecy

and nuts I could not reapy

and nuts I could not reapy

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PJ Harvey - Seem an I (Official Music Video)

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An Acre of Land is featured in Dark River, the new film written and directed by Clio Barnard, out in UK cinemas on 23 February.
 
Edited by: Intermission Film

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PJ Harvey and Harry Escott - An Acre of Land (Official Video)

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Directed by Seamus Murphy
Produced by James Wilson
Edited by Sebastian Gollek
Production company: JW Films 

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Artwork by Michelle Henning. 'Guilty’ is taken from The Hope Six Demolition Project sessions. The song was recorded in January 2015 during 'Recording in Progress', PJ Harvey's month long residency at Somerset House.

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LYRICS:

There’s a little figure on the television
scratching at the ground by a pile of rags.
Grainy little figures on television screens
weighing up the moment – guilty, guilty.

What’s he doing with that stick?
Which one is guilty?

Back in the bunker in the operations room
a bored soldier is eating his lunch
while drones in their thousands are unveiled in Texas
to roaring voices, but nobody asked us if we wanted them.

What’s he doing with that stick?
Which one is guilty?

Power to the predator. The Grim Reaper.
Grainy little suspects running for shelter.
The drones have come in their thousands
but nobody asked us if we wanted them.

Rules and regulation…

PJ Harvey - Guilty

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PJ Harvey and Egyptian recording artist Ramy Essam have come together to write and record ‘The Camp’ which they hope will raise awareness and much needed support towards the health and educational well-being of displaced children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. The artists will donate all net profits from the track to Beyond Association in the Bekaa Valley, a national Lebanese non-Governmental Organisation.  Beyond Association provides services such as access to education, healthcare, and psycho-social support mainly through art therapy, neuro-physiotherapy, and recreational activities. 

‘The Camp’ - released digitally on Friday 9 June 2017 - was recorded in Bristol with Harvey’s longtime collaborator John Parish, who produced and mixed the track.

"It is hard to comprehend the scale of the crisis in Lebanon, a country of 4 million now hosting over 1 million Syrian refugees,” states photo-journalist Giles Duley whose arresting photographs feature in the official music video, edited by Rick Holbrook. “The infrastructure of the country is pushed to its limit, and nowhere is that situation more desperate than in the Bekaa Valley. However, there are some amazing organisations doing incredible, effective, and selfless work on the ground there, and of all the NGOs I have documented, none have impressed me more than Beyond. To visit their schools and witness their programs is to see hope - and that is something we have to support.”

The following is an excerpt from Ramy Essam's verse of The Camp, translated from Egyptian to English: "I wish I had wings to fly away, far away. Meet smiley faces who never ask where I came from; not to ask about colour, race, or religion. What difference does it make if we're all humans? No wars, no limits, no borders. Earth is everyone's right.”

Music Video Credits:
Video edited by Rick Holbrook
Photographs provided by Giles Duley
Studio footage provided by Ramy Essam

Sound Recording Credits:
PJ Harvey: Vocals, piano, shaker
Ramy Essam: Vocals, acoustic guitar
John Parish: Drums, bass, electric & acoustic guitars
Produced by John Parish
Recorded by Oliver Baldwin at J&J Studios, Bristol

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PJ Harvey and Ramy Essam - The Camp (Official Video)

‘Prayer at the Gate’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, Rhodes
John Parish - drums, synths
Flood - effects pedal drone
Cecil - field recording samples

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
As childhood died the old year
made The Soldier reappear. 

The ash embowered night and day
as at the gate she prayed;

Wyman, am I worthy?
Speak your wordle to me,

and drisk shrouded in its cloak
holway, river, brook and oak. 

All souls under Orlam’s reign
made passage for the born again.

So look behind and look before 
at life a-knocking at death’s door

and teake towards your dark haired Lord
forever bleeding with The Word. 

So look before and look behind
at life and death all innertwined

and teake towards your dark haired Lord
forever bleeding with The Word.              


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PJ Harvey - Prayer at the Gate (Official Audio)

Taken from 'The Virtues - Original Series Soundtrack' out now:
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Written and recorded by PJ Harvey.

Actor: Lee Pepper
Director: Shane Meadows 
DOP: Nick Gillespie
Produced by Mark Herbert and Nickie Sault for Warp Films & Big Arty Productions.
The Virtues written by  Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne.

Starring BAFTA-nominated Stephen Graham (This is England, ’86, ’88, ’90, Boardwalk Empire, Line of Duty) alongside Irish actors Helen Behan and Niamh Algar, the 4-part drama tackles themes of repressed memory, apocalyptic revenge and the hope of redemption. 

The Virtues is available to stream now via All4.

Master copyright owned by Hot Head Music, Ltd. 2019
Published Hot Head Music Limited (ASCAP), administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing (ASCAP)

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PJ Harvey  - The Crowded Cell (Official Video)

PJ Harvey was recently invited to read a selection of Don Van Vliet's poetry at Michael Werner Gallery in London, as part of an exhibition of his paintings, Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand, from the 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition runs until February 17th 2024. More info here https://www.michaelwerner.com/

The artist, also known by the stage name Captain Beefheart, has had a significant impact on PJ Harvey's own music and art. 

Polly says, "Thank you to the Michael Werner Gallery for inviting me to read Don's poems. It was a privilege to be able to give life to his words whilst standing amongst his paintings. Thanks also to Jan Van Vliet who helped me prepare for the reading, and for sending me a poem Don had written for me in 2001, called 'Man Can't Anticipate Cat', which I read at the end of the night."

Don Van Vliet - "Standing on One Hand", 1994 Oil on linen.
© The Estate of Don Van Vliet. Courtesy Michael Werner Gallery, New York and London.

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PJ Harvey reading Don Van Vliet's 'Man Can't Anticipate Cat'

‘Autumn Term’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, piano, bass guitar
John Parish - drums, vocals, acoustic guitar, synth
Cecil - field recording samples, loop creation

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
Aish trees gave their keys, 
yet none will set me free.

The woody nightshade drooped her beads 
an’ bade, Come feed on these.

Look behind yourself, red eyed 
’gainst the wilder-mist to what you’ll find

I ascend three steps to hell. 
The school bus heaves up the hill 

The sloey spears on Witches Mead 
cussed, Come and lean on these!      

Look behind yourself, red eyed
’gainst the wilder-mist to what you’ll find       
 


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PJ Harvey - Autumn Term (Official Audio)

Available to watch on NPR Music's channel now

PJ Harvey - @nprmusic Tiny Desk Concert #shorts #nprmusic #tinydeskconcert #tinydesk

‘The Nether-edge’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, piano, Rhodes, acoustic guitar
John Parish - drums, synth
Flood - effects pedals
Cecil - bass keyboard, voice samples

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
March wull sarch, Eäpril wull try,
Mäy u’ll tell if you’ll live or die. 
                                 
Buds a-break and milchi seeps     
heady in the meadows
chalky children on the steep                             
baskets full of shadows

gapmouth spins a rattle song
air’s an upturned ocean
swift’s an axe hurled in the gloam          
splits the Riddle open  

Now it looks it almost zounds
wordle zircles wider 
with the silence upside down
horse atop the rider 

Quaterevil takes a wife:                                                            
chilver meets her maker                     
as the grindstone turns the knife              
o’er Eleven Acres

Femboys in the forest find                        
figs of foul freedom       
where the old you left behind
valls through nether-Eden  

Some must watch, while some must sleep                        
so runs the wordle’s way;                                          
a not-girl zweal-ed at the stake        
a-births the end of May  


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PJ Harvey - The Nether-edge (Official Audio)

‘All Souls’ is taken from the new album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/iinsidetheoldyeardyingID

Polly Jean Harvey - vocals, piano
John Parish - drums, vocals, synth
Flood - sonic disturbance, loop creation

Produced by Flood & John Parish

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LYRICS:
 
A carnival, a flesh farewell.                                        
Hiessens rising from the dead.                
Wyman-Elvis! Calls our gurrel,                                
And counts the ash to where he bled:        

At the first a crimson mist,
At the second sleeplessness.                              
At the third a broken tryst,                        
At the fourth, lwonesomeness.                             

Gawly in the sweethearts leaves.
Gawly in the soldier’s tears. 
As the Riddle river grieves:
Wyman-Elvis disappears…
  
Only in a scrid of flesh
Hooked upon the hart’s-tongue fern, 
And only by her own gooseflesh
Knows she somewhen he’ll return.                 


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PJ Harvey - All Souls (Official Audio)

John Parish and PJ Harvey - Is That All There Is?

PJ Harvey - 50ft Queenie

PJ Harvey - The Glorious Land

PJ Harvey - A Place Called Home

PJ Harvey - This Is Love

PJ Harvey and band perform 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' on @nprmusic Tiny Desk.

PJ Harvey

Bad Sisters (Season 2) [Original Series Soundtrack]

London Tide (World Premiere Recording)

I Inside the Old Year Dying

B-Sides, Demos & Rarities

Bad Sisters (Original Series Soundtrack)

The Hope Six Demolition Project - Demos

Let England Shake - Demos

White Chalk - Demos

Uh Huh Her - Demos

Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - Demos

I Inside the Old I Dying

A Child's Question, August

B-Sides, Demos & Rarities

Who by Fire (From "Bad Sisters")

Red Right Hand (From 'Peaky Blinders' Original Soundtrack)

All About Eve (Original Music – Bonus Tracks)

The Crowded Cell

An Acre of Land

The Camp

A Dog Called Money / I'll Be Waiting