PJ Harvey announces brand new album!

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

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: http://po.st/THSDPVEVO

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