On July 7, I Inside the Old Year Dying, the tenth studio album by English singer PJ Harvey, will be released. The work that comes after The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016) was produced by Flood, John Parish and the artist herself.
After "A Child's Question, August", Harvey drops the track "I Inside the Old I Dying".
PJ Harvey wrote about the process of making “I Inside the Old I Dying”:
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 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.
Watch the video for “A Child’s Question, August”:
