8.1
Avg Score
8
Opinions
#1,767
All Time
5
Tracks
“This record transports listeners through an intensely vivid journey, presenting a different side to PJ Harvey’s creative genius, one that proves profound art cannot be forced.”
“As PJ Harvey’s first album in seven years, I Inside The Old Year Dying is elliptical in all the best ways”
“Just as Polly Harvey’s previous set, 2016’s The Hope Six Demolition Project , was preceded by, and in part based upon, a book of poetry, so too is her 10th album. But whereas her 2015 volume of verse, The Hollow of the Hand, was informed by reportage from Kosovo and Afghanistan, last year’s novel-in-verse Orlam leaned heavily on the mythology and dialect of her native Dorset. Listeners not already”
“'I Inside the Old Year Dying' is a world unto itself, full of long-forgotten words and unusual music, and that's what makes it great”
“It’s been a long, seven-year wait for PJ Harvey’s new album. Her last, ‘The Hope Six Demolition Project’, took a toll. Travelling to areas destroyed by war and poverty, it was a powerful, but emotionally draining, record to make. “I wasn’t sure… if I wanted to carry on writing albums or playing, or if it was time for a change in my life,” the musician reflected recently, adding she was “heartbroke”
“In songs adapted from her book-length poem Orlam, the British singer-songwriter crafts a hallucinatory dreamworld out of folk instruments, primitive electronics, and warped field recordings.”
