Since 1992, PJ Harvey has made complex music that channels a primal, earthly energy. In a new interview, Harvey talks to amandapetrusich about her latest album, how she emerged from a creative fallow period, and learning to let go.
We first spoke sixteen years ago. When I was preparing for today, I looked up that oldand read it with one hand clamped over my mouth, which, if I’m being totally honest, is how I read most of my old writing. I was nervous to meet you, but you were lovely, articulate, and generous. You’ve spent the past couple years revisiting your own older work, releasing demos and B-sides and rarities from various eras of your career.
The music—the rhythm, the melody—brings its own emotional qualities. Poetry doesn’t need music. All of its music is contained in print on the page. And lyrics really do need music. Lyrics can be a very simple brushstroke of a sentence, and the music will expand it and add great resonance and meaning. There are very few artists that can do both music and poetry really well. Robert Burns was one of the few that could write brilliant songs and brilliant poems.
It feels so cliché to talk about, but children have such a vast capacity for wonder and enchantment and joy. It can be extraordinary to witness. You’re doing some really ambitious things with your voice on the new album—you always do, of course, but, here, it feels especially purposeful. There’s a lot of found sound on the album, some of which is recognizable, and some of which is inscrutable. Where were those samples sourced?
Flood is similar. I began my relationship with Flood, in ’94, I think. When I met him, we shared an emotional feeling around music—the music that we liked and the things that we were striving for, searching for. It’s hard to explain. As you get older, it’s not often that you meet someone and you want to make a new friend. But, every now and again, you want to bring a new person into your life.
It sounds like you approached it with grace and patience rather than what I would have done, which is panic.] There was certainly a time when I thought, O.K., maybe I’m not gonna feel that again. But I didn’t panic. I’ve seen this in my friends of a similar age.
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