Directed by Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña, PJ Harvey has shared an animated video for ‘I Inside the Old I Dying’, taken from her forthcoming album ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’, out July 7th on Partisan Records.
PJ Harvey says of the song:
“This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until the very last day in the studio. Over the previous five weeks we had tried so many times to capture it and failed, but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. As he was demonstrating it in the control room, Flood handed me a microphone and pressed record whilst I sat next to John trying to work out how to sing to it. The result somehow captures the ethereal and melancholic longing I was looking for.In the lyric everyone is waiting for the saviour to reappear – everyone and everything anticipates the arrival of this figure of love and transformation.There is a sense of sexual longing and awakening and of moving from one realm into another – from child to adult, from life to death and the eternal.”
Of the film’s directors Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, PJ Harvey says, “I have long admired their unique work and its combination of animation and drawing. I love how they have created their own narrative for the song yet still harness all the emotional qualities it inhabits. I encouraged them to go with their intuition and imagination and gave them complete creative freedom which resulted in this magical film.”
Today sees the announcement of a run of tour dates across the UK and Europe, with tickets available to the general public on Friday June 16th.
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