PJ HARVEY – Seem An I (2024)

Polly Jean Harvey MBE (born 9 October 1969) is an English singer-songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments.

In April 2023, it was announced on Harvey’s official website that her tenth studio album I Inside the Old Year Dying would be released on 7 July 2023 on Partisan Records. It also marked the first time (since the release of Dry on Too Pure in 1992), Harvey releasing her album on the independent label, after 30 years being signed on Island Records, part of Universal Music Group.[96] The first single “A Child’s Question, August” premiered on 26 April 2023.

Harvey toured Europe in support of the new album with 26 dates in September–October 2023 and is scheduled to perform on the 17 music festivals in Europe in summer 2024.[98][99] US Tour is planned for autumn 2024. The album has been met with widespread critical acclaim, debuted at #5 at UK Albums Chart and has been nominated as the Best Alternative Music Album at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards.

Bedraggled angels blethered across Eleven Acres

as belling from the bwoneyard a-rangled round the archet

Her fingernails a-ripped from hauling clay-filled fists

out of the river’s edges for pots with happy voices

Conzum-ed with twanketen that’s only eased by scratching

whisp-words slim as thistles or a sickly chicken’s whistles

Seem an I a childhood of quartere’il and wormwood

of not-friends running nowhere of vog a-veiling elsewhere

Till in the vaulted barn queer-lit by dummet zun

she knew herself a vessel fit for a different wordle

where footsteps must be lwone and barefoot upon stones

and the northwind’s ever-host gives edges to the ghosts

Seem an I a childhood of quartere’il and wormwood

of not-friends running nowhere of vog a-veiling elsewhere

of mother’s voice not-calling of corrugated iron

of devil’s birds and whiskey of chilver hogs and fleecy

and nuts I could not reapy

and nuts I could not reapy