PJ Harvey Announces New Album The Hope Six Demolition Project For April 2016 Release

PJ Harvey as just announced that she will be released a new album, The Hope Six Demolition Project.

The follow-up to 2011’s Let England Shake has just been announced by PJ Harvey and the title of the artist’s ninth studio album is The Hope Six Demolition Project. The album will be officially released through Vagrant Records on April 15. According to a press release, the new album draws from the journeys and Harvey as taken over a four year period in Kosovo, Washing D.C. and Afghanistan. She had this to say about the album, “When I’m writing a song I visualize 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.” A full track list can be found below.

The album was recorded last year in residency at London’s Somerset House and was actually observed through a one way glass to the public. The exhibition was titled “Recording in Process” and included Harvey, her band, the producers Flood and John Parish and all of the engineers working in the studio. The entire show was put on as part of the London museum last year and was highly visited attraction.
PJ Harvey will be playing select festivals across Europe this summer with her new 9-piece band. The dates for these shows can also be found below.

The Hope Six Demolition Project Track list:

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

Tour Dates:

06/04/16 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound
06/04-05/16 – Paris, France – We Love Green Festival
06/12/16 – London, UK – Field Day
06/17-18/16 – Helsinki, Finland – Sideways Festival
06/20/16 – Berlin, Germany – Zitadelle Spandau
06/22/16 – Zagreb, Croatia – INMusic
06/24-26/16 – Beuningen, The Netherlands – Down The Rabbit Hole
06/29/16 – Gdynia, Poland – Open’er Festival
06/29-07/02/16 – Roskilde, Denmark – Roskilde Festival
07/02/16 – Werchter, Belgium – Rock Werchter
07/03/16 – Herouville St Clair, France – Beauregard Festival
07/07/16 – Trenčín, Slovakia – Pohoda Festival
08/11/16 – Oslo, Norway – OYA
08/11-13/16 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Way Out West