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I Inside the Old Year Dying PJ Harvey

The latest from PJ Harvey, album number ten, takes her epic poetry from last year’s ‘Orlam’ and channels those written words into a musical suite that bristles somewhere between singer-songwriter Folk and a narrative soundtrack. Now a long way off from the Garage Punk chops that made her name, Harvey instead takes a more sedate position as she continues to weave absorbing narratives with an expert observational eye on grounding details. While ‘Seem an I’ has the revolving chug of her earlier work, ‘Twonesome Tonight’ finds Harvey’s delivery comes across with a Neil Young bent, part-wistful, part-strident. The slow creeping electronics and buried percussion of ‘All Souls’ hint at a coming dancefloor stomper but instead unfurl into something eerier and all the more disquieting for an album highlight.

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