PJ HARVEY – NEW ALBUM  THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT  

RELEASED APRIL 15TH ON VAGRANT RECORDS in US  

   

Artwork  and  Creative  Direction  by  Michelle  Henning    

Watch this new album trailer by Seamus Murphy featuring tracks The Community of Hope and The Wheel here:

http://po.st/THSDPVEVO  

Lead single The Wheel receives its first UK play this Thursday on Steve

Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show.  

This spring sees the release of PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, on April 15th through Vagrant Records

in the US.

The Hope Six Demolition Project draws from several journeys undertaken by Harvey, who spent time in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington, D.C. over a four-year period. “When I’m writing a song I visualise the entire scene. I can see the colours, I can tell the time of day, I can sense the mood, I can see the light changing, the shadows moving, everything in that picture. Gathering information from secondary sources felt too far removed for what I was trying to write about. I wanted to smell the air, feel the soil and meet the people of the countries I was fascinated with”, says Harvey.    The album was recorded last year in residency at London’s Somerset House. The exhibition, entitled ‘Recording in Progress’ saw Harvey, her band, producers Flood and John Parish, and engineers working within a purpose-built recording studio behind one-way glass, observed throughout by public audiences.  

Watch this new album trailer by Seamus Murphy featuring tracks The Community of Hope and The Wheel here: LINK The Hope Six Demolition Project will be available on vinyl, CD and as a digital download. The full track-listing is:    

1. The Community of Hope  2. The Ministry of Defence  3. A Line in the Sand  4. Chain of Keys  5. River Anacostia  6. Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln  7. The Orange Monkey  8. Medicinals  9. The Ministry of Social Affairs  10. The Wheel  11. Dollar, Dollar  

 This new album follows the 2011 Mercury Prize winning ‘Let England Shake’.  

PJ Harvey will play select festival dates across Europe this summer with her new 9-piece band:    June 4 Primavera Sound, Barcelona, Spain June 4-5 We Love Green Festival, Paris, France June 12 Field Day, London, United Kingdom June 17-18 Sideways Festival, Helsinki, Finland June 20 Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany June 22 INMusic, Zagreb, Croatia June 24-26 Down The Rabbit Hole, Beuningen, The Netherlands June 29 Open’er Festival, Gdynia, Poland June 29-July 2 Roskilde Festival, Denmark July 2 Rock Werchter, Werchter, Belgium July 3 Beauregard Festival, Herouville St Clair, France July 7 Pohoda Festival, Trenčín, Slovakia August 11 OYA, Oslo, Norway August 11-13 Way Out West, Gothenburg, Sweden

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