PJ Harvey in Breath-taking Form at Manchester Albert Hall [Show Review]

Clocking in at just over 30 years in the business, and exploring a vast array of genres along the way, it feels like PJ Harvey has come of age (again) with her latest offering, I Inside The Old Year Dying. The album, very much a concept album, deals with themes of the life-cycle from birth to death, and embraces British folk, even veering towards folk horror in its darker moments. The lyrics are culled from her 2022 Epic poem, “Orlam”, from which the deep usage of Dorset dialogue lends itself even further into the realms of cinematic imagery, recalling the feel of the Cornish films of Mark Jenkin (Bait, Enys Men). Her current tour is a game of two halves, delivering the album in its entirety before embarking on a finely curated skim through highlights of her lengthy back-catalogue. In some...

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