Pj Harvey performed a recent Tiny Desk Concert in support of her latest album I Inside the Old Year Dying.
Joined by her usual bandmates John Parish and James Johnston, Harvey performed four songs from the new LP: “I Inside the Old I Dying,” “A Noiseless Noise,” its lead single “A Child’s Question, August,” and its title track. The songs off I Inside the Old Year Dying closely tie in with the singer-songwriter’s epic poem Orlam, in which a distressed young girl merges with a forest around her in refuge; with minimal backing performers and hardly any chatter between songs, Harvey’s lyrics were the main focus of her Tiny Desk Concert, bringing the vivid imagery of her poem to life.
Lastly, Harvey performed the title track off her 2007 album White Chalk, almost as if to subtly nod to just some of the characters she’s embodied through her music over the years.
Joined by her usual bandmates John Parish and James Johnston, Harvey performed four songs from the new LP: “I Inside the Old I Dying,” “A Noiseless Noise,” its lead single “A Child’s Question, August,” and its title track. The songs off I Inside the Old Year Dying closely tie in with the singer-songwriter’s epic poem Orlam, in which a distressed young girl merges with a forest around her in refuge; with minimal backing performers and hardly any chatter between songs, Harvey’s lyrics were the main focus of her Tiny Desk Concert, bringing the vivid imagery of her poem to life.
Lastly, Harvey performed the title track off her 2007 album White Chalk, almost as if to subtly nod to just some of the characters she’s embodied through her music over the years.
- 11/17/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Pj Harvey recently treated the NPR office to four songs from this year’s I Inside the Old Year Dying, an album that found her singing in the archaic dialect of Dorset, where she grew up, as well as an occasional nod to Elvis Presley’s “Love Me Tender.” She sang in a cluttered corner of the radio network’s office for the 16-minute Tiny Desk Concert, supported by multi-instrumentalist James Johnston and her longtime collaborator John Parish, both of whom backed her up on lyrics like “chalky children of...
- 11/17/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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