I Inside the Old Year Dying

I Inside the Old Year Dying is the upcoming tenth studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey, scheduled to be released on 7 July 2023 through Partisan Records. It is her first album of new material since The Hope Six Demolition Project (2016), and she served as producer alongside Flood and John Parish.[1] The lead single, "A Child's Question, August", was released on 26 April 2023.[2]

I Inside the Old Year Dying
A dead branch casting a shadow on a white surface covered by plastic, with light reflecting off the plastic to the side of the image, Harvey's name in white to the side of the branch, and an orange sticker with the title in handwriting in the top-right corner
Studio album by
PJ Harvey
Released7 July 2023 (2023-07-07)
Length39:32
LabelPartisan
Producer
PJ Harvey chronology
The Hope Six Demolition Project
(2016)		 I Inside the Old Year Dying
(2023)
Singles from I Inside the Old Year Dying
  1. "A Child's Question, August"
    Released: 26 April 2023

Background

Harvey began sharing photographs of herself in the studio recording the album in February 2022.[3] In an April 2022 interview with The Observer, she confirmed that a new album would be released in 2023.[4] In June 2022, she announced that she had finished the album and intended to release it in mid-2023.[5] Throughout 2023, she teased the impending release of new music.[3]

In a statement with the album's announcement on 25 April 2023, Harvey said the album took "many years of work" and "was a difficult album to make" as it "took time to find its strongest form, but it has finally become all [she] hoped for it to be".[6] It was inspired by her epic poem Orlam, and was partially improvised with producers Flood and John Parish, with Harvey describing the meaning as "searching, looking—the intensity of first love, and seeking meaning". She additionally called it "a resting space, a solace, a comfort, a balm—which feels timely for the times we're in".[7] Along with Harvey recording the album alongside Flood and Parish, the album is said to be "scattered with Biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare".[1]

Track listing
I Inside the Old Year Dying track listing[2]
No.TitleLength
1."Prayer at the Gate"4:14
2."Autumn Term"3:20
3."Lwonesome Tonight"3:48
4."Seem an I"3:06
5."The Nether-edge"3:17
6."I Inside the Old Year Dying"1:52
7."All Souls"4:21
8."A Child's Question, August"2:46
9."I Inside the Old I Dying"3:08
10."August"2:41
11."A Child's Question, July"3:02
12."A Noiseless Noise"3:57
Total length:39:32

References
  1. "I Inside the Old Year Dying (CD)". PJ Harvey. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  2. "PJ Harvey announces new album, I Inside the Old Year Dying". Treble Zine. 25 April 2023. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  3. Dunworth, Liberty (25 April 2023). "PJ Harvey announces new single 'A Child's Question, August'". NME. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  4. Kellaway, Kate (24 April 2022). "PJ Harvey, poet: "Dorset is light and dark, ecstasy and melancholy"". The Observer. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  5. Kress, Bryan (28 June 2022). "PJ Harvey Reveals Her New Album Is Finished: "I'm Very Pleased with It"". Consequence. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  6. Coffman, Tim (25 April 2023). "PJ Harvey announces new album I Inside the Old Year Dying". Far Out. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  7. Minsker, Evan (26 April 2023). "PJ Harvey Returns With New Album I Inside the Old Year Dying, Shares Video for New Song: Watch". Pitchfork. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
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