PJ Harvey album tracklist revealed

As previously reported on Music News a new PJ Harvey album is expected early this summer. The as-yet-untitled album is rumoured to be the most Polly-centric yet; apparently Ms. Harvey plays all the instruments save the percussion, and is also the chief producer, recording and mixing the songs with help from Head.

PJ Harvey has been playing material from the album as far back as last summer, while touring on Europe's festival circuit. At the time, Harvey spoke about the record in progress to NME, calling it "a much more simple, rough, raw-sounding record. It's brutally honest, there's not a lot of beautifying of anything. On the last record I was very into creating layers of beauty and melodic intensity and soft beautiful sounds, and all of that's gone out the window now. I tend to be someone that reacts against (their) last piece of work, so I've gone for quite ugly sounds and quite disturbing, raw, angry, upsetting sort of material...with this record, it's pretty ugly really. Quite an ugly sounding batch of songs. Quite disturbing, quite dark, quite bluesy."

Tracklist of the loops:

01 Who the Fuck?
02 The Slow Drug
03 The End
04 Shame
05 You Come Through
06 The Letter
07 No Child of Mine
08 Cat On the Wall
09 The Life and Death of Mr.Badmouth
10 The Darker Days of Me and Him
11 The Desperate Kingdom of Love
12 It's You
13 Untitled

PJ Harvey looks set to play plenty of European festivals again this summer, with a May solo date already confirmed in Paris along with a headlining date at Barcelona's Primavera Festival in June. Appearances are also rumored at the Glastonbury, T in the Park, and Rock Werchter fests.
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