PJ Harvey has today released a new single, ‘I Inside the Old I Dying’ from her forthcoming album 'I Inside the Old Year Dying'.
The legendary PJ Harvey has today released a new single, ‘I Inside the Old I Dying’ from her forthcoming albumI Inside the Old Year Dying. The release is accompanied by an animated music video, directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, which you can watch below.
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The film’s directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have said: “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.”
Of the new single ‘I Inside the Old I Dying’, PJ Harvey commented:
“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 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.”
The forthcoming album,I Inside the Old Year Dying – Harvey’s first since 2016’s Grammy-nominatedThe Hope Six Demolition Project – will be released on Friday 7 July via Partisan Records.
To preorder the album, visit this link.
