This year, PJ Harvey has announced several reissues of her music on vinyl, including 2000’s Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea, 2004’s Uh Huh Her, and 2007’s White Chalk. Today, she’s announced another with the reissue of 2011’s Let England Shake. Her eighth studio album will be released on CD, vinyl, and digitally with unreleased demos. Along with the announcement today, she’s shared the demo of the title track.
Let England Shake was written over two and a half years and recorded in five weeks, between April and May 2010, at a church in Dorset. Harvey cited “Harold Pinter, Francisco de Goya, the First World War poets, Ari Folman, and The Doors as influences for the album, as well as researching the history of conflict and searching for modern-day testimonies from civilians and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan,” reads the press release.
The reissue is out January 28. Listen to the demo below, and pre-order Let England Shake here.
