PJ Harvey hasn't released an album since 2016's The Hope Six Demolition Project, but she's been busy with a career-spanning reissue campaign and Orlam, a new book of Dorset-vernacular poetry.
But in a new interview with Rolling Stone to discuss the creation of Orlam, Harvey revealed that she's nearing the finish line on her next record and that it can be expected next summer.
"I'm very pleased with it," she said of her forthcoming 10th studio album. "It took a long time to write to get right, but at last I feel very happy with it."
Later in the interview, Harvey talks about the music she currently finds inspiring, citing soundtrack writers like Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi (including the producer's work with Tirzah), Hildur Guðnadóttir and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The idea of a PJ Harvey album inspired by Sakamoto, Levi and Tirzah is super intriguing, but we'll just have to see what summer 2023 has in store.
Harvey also shouts out Thom Yorke's work with the Smile, Anna von Hausswolff's All Thoughts Fly, and Bob Dylan's 2020 record Rough and Rowdy Ways, of which she said there's "no greater pleasure than when I see an artist who I've admired all my life, doing their best work as their most recent work." She also talked about her enduring love for Elvis, saying that she "[meditates] on Elvis songs to myself. I very often play his work at the piano."
You can read the whole interview here.
But in a new interview with Rolling Stone to discuss the creation of Orlam, Harvey revealed that she's nearing the finish line on her next record and that it can be expected next summer.
"I'm very pleased with it," she said of her forthcoming 10th studio album. "It took a long time to write to get right, but at last I feel very happy with it."
Later in the interview, Harvey talks about the music she currently finds inspiring, citing soundtrack writers like Jonny Greenwood, Mica Levi (including the producer's work with Tirzah), Hildur Guðnadóttir and Ryuichi Sakamoto. The idea of a PJ Harvey album inspired by Sakamoto, Levi and Tirzah is super intriguing, but we'll just have to see what summer 2023 has in store.
Harvey also shouts out Thom Yorke's work with the Smile, Anna von Hausswolff's All Thoughts Fly, and Bob Dylan's 2020 record Rough and Rowdy Ways, of which she said there's "no greater pleasure than when I see an artist who I've admired all my life, doing their best work as their most recent work." She also talked about her enduring love for Elvis, saying that she "[meditates] on Elvis songs to myself. I very often play his work at the piano."
You can read the whole interview here.
