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Polly Jean Harvey was born on 9 October 1969 in Bridport, Dorset, the second child of Ray and Eva Harvey. [10] Her parents owned a quarrying business on Ham Hill, the site of a large Iron Age hillfort, and she grew up on the family farm in Corscombe. [11]
This is Harvey's first album on an independent label since Dry on Too Pure in 1992; Harvey had been signed with Island Records (Universal Music Group) for 30 years. [7] The album was produced by Flood and John Parish, with additional production done by Rob Kirwan. [8] The lead single, "A Child's Question, August", was released on 26 April 2023. [9]
Parish wrote and played the music, while Harvey sang vocals and wrote the lyrics. [8] The pair had been musical collaborators for several years before making this album together – as a teenager growing up in rural England, Harvey contributed saxophone, guitar and backing vocals to Parish’s band Automatic Dlamini before forming her own band in 1991. [7]
4/5 The Birdport-born musician revisits her farm-girl childhood
Polly Jean Harvey has reactivated her nom de plume PJ Harvey for her first new album in seven years, I Inside the Old Year Dying. It is her first album with Partisan Records after spending 30 ...
PJ Harvey performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival 2024, Friday 28 June (Getty) ... Its fruit is deformed children”, it’s greeted as a virtual party banger by the (noticeably thin ...
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Following her departure from Automatic Dlamini in January 1991, Harvey formed the PJ Harvey Trio. The trio, which included Rob Ellis and Steve Vaughan, released Dry in 1992 on the independent label Too Pure and later released Rid of Me in 1993 on major label Island. The trio split in late 1993 and Harvey continued as a solo artist under the ...