Today sees the announcement of a run of tour dates across the UK and Europe, with tickets available to the general public on Friday June 16th.
To access presale tickets next Wednesday June 14th from 10am BST / 11am CET, you can pre-order the new album I Inside the Old Year Dying from the official store. If you have already ordered from the official store, you will automatically be sent pre-sale access information.
There will be a mailing list community presale on Thursday June 15th from 10am BST / 11am CET, and if you are subscribed to the mailing list, you’ll receive an email with details an hour before.
The new song from PJ Harvey, titled ‘I Inside the Old I Dying’, accompanied by a music video directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña is out now: listen and watch.
PJ 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, 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 saviour 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.”
Of the film’s directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, PJ Harvey says, “I have long admired their unique work and its combination of animation and drawing. I love how they have created their own narrative for the song yet still harness all the emotional qualities it inhabits. I encouraged them to go with their intuition and imagination and gave them complete creative freedom which resulted in this magical film.”
View the I Inside the Old Year Dying collection at the official PJ Harvey store.