PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

PJ HARVEY – NEW ALBUM THE HOPE SIX DEMOLITION PROJECT RELEASED APRIL 15TH ON VAGRANT RECORDS
in US Artwork and Creative Direction by Michelle Henning Watch this new album trailer by Seamus Murphy featuring tracks
The Community of Hope and The Wheel here:
http://po.st/THSDPVEVO Lead single The Wheel receives its first UK play this Thursday on Steve
Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show. This spring sees the release of PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album,
The Hope Six Demolition Project, on April 15th through Vagrant Records
in the US.
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: LINK
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
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