Both the poems and the album lyrics require some footnotes for a lay reader to untangle, but Harvey’s sense of rhythm and scene are so exquisite that it hardly feels like work at all. It’s based loosely on “ Orlam,” Harvey’s second book of poetry, which was published in 2022 and written in the heavy, captivating vernacular of Dorset, the coastal county in southwest England where Harvey was brought up. Earlier this month, Harvey released “I Inside the Old Year Dying,” her tenth album, and her first since 2016.

For me, her work has always conjured images of the natural world, a certain rawness and danger: a prehistoric volcano rupturing, or a big cat darting elegantly across a plain. If you don’t express those feelings - whether they’re aggressive or loving or whatever - they will blow you up one day.Since 1992, when she released “Dry,” her début album, PJ Harvey has made complex music that channels a primal, earthly energy. I also think that’s why it’s the most powerful medium: because it expresses for other people feelings that they can’t express but that need to be expressed.

“For years I couldn’t express how I felt,” she continued in the same interview. The songs she recorded back then still sound as vital as they ever did, and maybe even more so, as the world mourns her too-young death at age 56 anyone who explores her catalog will find inspiring performances that go well beyond the hits. “I think I’m probably living proof of the danger of not expressing your feelings,” she told Rolling Stone‘s Mikal Gilmore in 1990 - the year that her second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, turned the Irish singer with the unforgettable voice into an international superstar. Sinéad O’Connor burned fast and bright from the very start.

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