http://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/pj-harvey-confirms-uk-tour-announces-brand-new-single-guilty
"PJ Harvey has confirmed that "Guilty" - a track recorded during the "Recording In Progress" Somerset House sessions that spawned new LP "The Hope Six Demolition Project" - will be released on Wednesday 13 July."
Uncut Magazine (March 2016) wrote:
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY!
When Uncut went to see Recording In
Progress at Somerset House, we watched
Harvey and her band work on a song called
“Guilty”. Sadly, it didn’t make the finished
album. Here, Flood explains why…
"'Guilty' was fascinating. It was one
of the discovery songs for us – for
the way songs could push forward
into a new territory. i’d been experimenting with
contact-micing a tom-tom, and then putting it
through a whammy pedal. I suggested that maybe
we could have a little bit of fun if Kenrick [Rowe]
played the tom-tom and i manipulated the pitch of
it through an amp. We had so much fun doing it.
Then as the session went on, it became quite a
difficult song to get to the place where Polly, John
and I felt it should go. By the end of the process,
even though it was finished, it felt a little bit outside
the rest of the material – as if it had come from a
different place in time. The record felt stronger as
a body of work for not having it on. That’s not to say
that it might not see the light of day. This is part of
witnessing a small part of the process – it can be
completely contradictory to the end result. I think
Polly’s idea of people only getting tiny little
snapshots is so brilliant, because it doesn’t destroy
the mystique. It probably adds to it."
When Uncut went to see Recording In
Progress at Somerset House, we watched
Harvey and her band work on a song called
“Guilty”. Sadly, it didn’t make the finished
album. Here, Flood explains why…
"'Guilty' was fascinating. It was one
of the discovery songs for us – for
the way songs could push forward
into a new territory. i’d been experimenting with
contact-micing a tom-tom, and then putting it
through a whammy pedal. I suggested that maybe
we could have a little bit of fun if Kenrick [Rowe]
played the tom-tom and i manipulated the pitch of
it through an amp. We had so much fun doing it.
Then as the session went on, it became quite a
difficult song to get to the place where Polly, John
and I felt it should go. By the end of the process,
even though it was finished, it felt a little bit outside
the rest of the material – as if it had come from a
different place in time. The record felt stronger as
a body of work for not having it on. That’s not to say
that it might not see the light of day. This is part of
witnessing a small part of the process – it can be
completely contradictory to the end result. I think
Polly’s idea of people only getting tiny little
snapshots is so brilliant, because it doesn’t destroy
the mystique. It probably adds to it."
From my archive:
"Guilty" - song recounts a drone attack as witnessed through a grainy surveillance screen: "There's a little figure / on the television / scratching on the ground / waiting for the moment"; "What's he doing with that stick? / Which one is guilty?".
First quote is from one of the many articles about album recording, and the rest of information is from "NME" article which came out in February 2015, and I wanted to hear that song ever since!
P.S.: "Homo Sappy Blues" would be a great B-Side.
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