I Inside the Old Year Dying is PJ Harvey ’s tenth album, and her first in seven years. Throughout her career, she has always ensured that each phase of her progress has taken her somewhere new, but her latest music is audacious and original even by her own standards.

 

Full of a sense of a cyclical return to new beginnings, it combines its creative daring with a sense of being open and inviting, in the most fascinating way. The new songs, Harvey says, offer 'a resting space, a solace, a comfort, a balm - which feels timely for the times we’re in'.