Photo by Steve Gullick

For her part, Polly Jean Harvey has done more than her fair share with her art in bringing to the surface everyday grievances within our society and the ugliness of politics’ impact in eroding this world. This makes “A Child’s Question, August”, the lead single from the alternative rock songwriter’s forthcoming tenth studio album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, an anomaly in that scheme. Still, it’s in consistency with her perpetual desire to evolve her music beyond what came before it and offer her audience mind food that gives cause to examine one’s place in all that they do. “Love me tender / Tender love,” she sings in refrain over a steady, cushed drum timbre. Guitar chords ring through a fog imagery of naturistic themes in flux, and as the she and the listen move through the scenery, we’re graced by yet another dimension of PJ Harvey’s specter over the universe, still haunting us even in her most comforting form.

Directed by: Steve Gullick & PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey’s I Inside the Old Year Dying will be released July 7th on Partisan Records.