—Vanity Fair, 1 Mar 2024


—Rolling Stone, 18 Sep 2024


—A Colour Field playlist posted to pjharvey.net, 31 Dec 2024


—Rolling Stone Japan, 2 Feb 2025

So now that the Orlam and I Inside the Old Year Dying era is done, and we know she isn’t retiring or fully rebranding as a theatrical composer or poet… should the speculation about PJHLP11 begin?

I’ve been thinking about the recent influences she was listing in interviews last year—re-reading T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, dipping in and out of The Book of Job, Kali Malone’s mournful drones of All Life Long, Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies… will death and loss be the focal point of the next body of work? Or is it just Polly’s regular gloomy art diet and I’m just reading into this too much?

She's not giving many hints to speculate about, is she? The only assumption I can make is obviously that this new project she refers to will marry songs and poetry in a different way: maybe we can expect a new book which incorporates songs and poems as different parts of a whole, or maybe they will be married in a different context than a single novel or collection. A screenplay? An opera? The possibilities are endless, and I'm already looking forward to whatever it's going to be!

Great job putting all the quotes in one place, i was thinking about creating a new album thread these months, but i've been overloaded with work.

Ithink you missed a early one though:

-2023-12-15 World Cafe interview:


i think it could be a substatial quote 'cause it may give a little hint about the theme of the next album, which will (Supposedly) part ways thematically with IITOYD, Anger and energy vs retoration/healing (according to her own words).
It also tells us that she's been working on the new album for a bit less than a year and a half. I'll say this again here, i think before the end of this year she will feed us with some huge reveal.




Which is great, that would mean IITOYD and the new album will be very different in another way: the lyrics will not be shared by the Poetry book and the album;

Yeah, forgot about that one. I wonder how much this ‘rush of angry energy’ will translate into the sound of the next record—or maybe she just sees this song as a transitional maelstrom between two projects, a sonic separator between two bodies of work that doesn’t bear much resemblance to either? Hard to guess from just a short comment. But the final imagery of I Inside…, “A gawly girl / a bogus boy trapes the fields of feasen to a chammer of not-sleeping” also makes me think about death and stepping into a different realm.



That’s very optimistic. TBH I don’t expect anything from her this year or the next, maybe something in 2027, and I assume the book will be her priority, and then the album will follow. But perhaps some bits and pieces will surface in the meantime, maybe a chatty collaborator will reveal some information (thankfully John sure likes doing podcasts), maybe there will be some poetry-oriented appearances? She tried out the first poems from Orlam during a reading back in 2016, I think, so we could’ve guessed the direction she was going in pretty early on.