PJ Harvey Announces New Album The Hope Six Demolition Project
Photo by Seamus Murphy
PJ Harvey has announced her new album, The Hope Six Demolition Project. The follow-up to 2011′s Let England Shake will be released on April 15 on Island Records. Watch a new trailer for the album below. Directed by Seamus Murphy, it features the songs “The Community of Hope” and “The Wheel.” Also find the tracklist and album cover below. Update (3:52 p.m.): The song has surfaced in full on BBC, as Consequence of Sound points out. Hear it at the 51:35 mark here.
The first single, “The Wheel”, premiered today on Steve Lamacq’s show on BBC Radio 6 Music.
The Hope Six Demolition Project was created in sessions open to the public as part of a London museum exhibition last year. While writing the songs (as well as her poetry book The Hollow of the Hand), Harvey traveled to Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Washington D.C. with photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy.
Last fall, she debuted 10 new songs as part of a multimedia show in London with Murphy.
The Hope Six Demolition Project:
01 The Community of Hope
02 The Ministry of Defence
03 A Line in the Sand
04 Chain of Keys
05 River Anacostia
06 Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln
07 The Orange Monkey
08 Medicinals
09 The Ministry of Social Affairs
10 The Wheel
11 Dollar, Dollar
Harvey is touring this summer in support of the album. Check out those dates below.
PJ Harvey:
06-04 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera
06-05 Paris, France – We Love Green
06-12 London, England – Field Day
06-17-18 Helsinki, Finland – Sideways
06-20 Berlin, Germany – Citadel Music Festival
06-22 Zagreb, Croatia – INmusic festival
06-24-26 Ewijk, Netherlands – Down the Rabbit Hole
06-29 Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
06-29-07-02 Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07-02 Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07-03 Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France – Beauregard Music Festival
07-07 Trenčín, Slovakia – Pohoda
08-11 Oslo, Norway – Øya Festival
08-11-13 Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West
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