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10.0
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The Skinny
With I Inside the Old Year Dying, PJ Harvey has produced her most beguiling work yet
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10.0
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Evening Standard
This is a wonderfully immersive experience, the music stripped back to a skeletal state that recalls Nick Cave’s recent work
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10.0
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The Arts Desk
These are songs that honour the cycles of life and death
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10.0
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Record Collector
With expressive restraint, key collaborators John Parish and Flood utilise instruments and field recordings to tactile effect, while leaving room for Harvey’s voice to resonate
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9.0
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All Music
I Inside the Old Year Dying's lively exploration is also a rekindling of something vital in Harvey's art in general. Though its whispers and shadows may not reveal everything, they're more than enough for a fascinating listening experience
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9.0
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Uncut
Hark! I Inside the Old Year Dying is a singular thing. Print edition only
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Northern Transmissions
PJ Harvey deftly builds a vivid world that, much like your favorite folk horror film, reveals more to itself with each return. And, once you come to know its every twist and turn, can bring a sense of comfort in its familiarity
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8.5
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Under The Radar
Has the hallmark of an album that will only get better with age
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8.4
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Achieves the sort of poetic autumnal quality which the album title seems to hint at
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8.2
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Beats Per Minute
There is enough here that suggests both a looking back and a looking forwards – again, that bridge between new and old, the past and the future, the real and the fantastical. As ever, where she goes next is anyone’s guess
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8.0
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Rolling Stone
Many of the songs, which she recorded with longtime collaborators John Parish and producer Flood, recall the downtempo energies of Let England Shake and her quiet 2007 album, White Chalk, and like those albums, the music here excels in its otherworldliness
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8.0
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NME
The Dorset-born musician's first album since 2016 is both elusive and mesmerising
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8.0
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Mojo
Holds itself at the biting point between old and new, re-evaluation and revelation. What lies on the other side, only Polly Harvey knows, but this is a record she was born to make. Print edition only
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8.0
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The Guardian
Enigmatic and occasionally disturbing, the songwriter adapts her own book of poetry into a rough-edged LP full of potency and atmosphere
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8.0
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The FT
The singer-songwriter embraces her West Country heritage on these 12 tracks
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8.0
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The Observer
The singer-songwriter’s 10th album, based on her 2022 verse novel, isn’t her most accessible, but there are standout moments
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8.0
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XS Noize
Harvey and her long-term creative partner John Parish and regular producer Flood have merged to create something truly wonderful and unique here
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8.0
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Gigwise
PJ Harvey is rejuvenated
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8.0
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Albumism
Based on 12 poems from her acclaimed novel Orlam, published last Spring after a three-year mentorship with Scottish poet Don Paterson
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8.0
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The Independent
A grungy, pagan whirl around the Dorset countryside
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
It may be a hard record to get a finger on, particularly compared to her last decade or so of releases, but I Inside The Old Year Dying, is another strong record in a discography already stacked with classics
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7.9
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Pitchfork
In songs adapted from her book-length poem Orlam, the British singer-songwriter crafts a hallucinatory dreamworld out of folk instruments, primitive electronics, and warped field recordings
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7.8
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7.8 |
Spectrum Culture
To get the album in any sort of way requires an immersive experience, and Harvey has designed the album to be exactly that, with unfamiliar settings, characters and sounds
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7.0
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The Irish Times
Yearning for creative truth after a period of clutter
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7.0
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musicOMH
The two-time Mercury winner’s 10th album takes a left turn, setting the Dorset singer’s poems to music in confounding, unorthodox yet reputation-enhancing style
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7.0
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Slant Magazine
The album’s music rattles and quakes in stark contrast with the singer’s studiously composed intellectual exercises
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5.0
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God Is In The TV
This is the first time in over thirty years that I’ve felt disappointed
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