I'm amazed, in my opinion some of these demos are even better the album version! Some have a complete different vibe, it's astounding. I like to take it as a sign her musical creativity is far from over, hopefully.

I'm amazed, in my opinion some of these demos are even better the album version! Some have a complete different vibe, it's astounding. I like to take it as a sign her musical creativity is far from over, hopefully.

I found someone's photo on Twitter of the signed lyric print featuring the lyrics to "We Float" - are there any pictures floating around of the lyric prints for previous demo albums?



BTW, interesting that she changed

I'm your 'mothers' little helper'
Yeah, you take me and black-out

to

I was in need of help
Heading to black out


in the studio version.

Some really excellent reviews of the demos by Matthew Barton:

https://beatsperminute.com/please-dont-reproach-me-for-how-empty-my-life-has-become-pj-harveys-white-chalk-and-its-demos/
https://beatsperminute.com/tape-the-broken-parts-together-pj-harveys-uh-huh-her-and-its-demos/
https://beatsperminute.com/this-is-love-that-im-feeling-%e2%80%a8pj-harveys-stories-from-the-city-stories-from-the-sea-and-its-demos/
https://beatsperminute.com/trouble-taking-place-examining-pj-harveys-is-this-desire-and-demos/
https://beatsperminute.com/voodoo-working-delving-into-pj-harveys-demos-and-reissues/

I had half-convinced myself that that was it for PJ Harvey’s recording career as it was, a feeling reinforced by this reissue campaign that, while certainly welcome and beautifully done, felt like more of a looking back than one is used to with PJ Harvey.

But maybe one has to look back to look forward. Much time has now elapsed since Harvey’s most recent two LPs. Indeed, the gap between Let England Shake and the present day is longer than that between her debut album Dry (1992) and the Mercury-winning Stories. The six years since Hope Six are the longest we’ve gone without new recorded Harvey material.

Everything is pointing towards something bold and new in the future and, having followed Harvey through mercurial twists and turns over three decades, we must not second-guess what she might have come up with. We’d probably be wrong.

Do you guys still believe there will be an album of unreleased material, as we discussed all along, to wrap up the reissue campaign?
It just dawned on me that with the publishing of Orlam, the book tour, the book reissue on October and the unofficial announcement of the new album next year, the idea seems unlikely.
I obviously hope otherwise and that she proves me wrong.