PJ Harvey returns with artist-made music video after 7-year hiatus

PJ Harvey released her tenth studio album 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' on July 7, 2023 via Partisan Records, ending a seven-year silence. The album was produced by Flood (Mark Ellis) and John Parrish, and features twelve tracks with lyrical references to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Shakespeare, drawing from her 2022 book 'Orlam' written in Dorset dialect. The second single's music video was directed by Chilean artists Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, known for their stop-motion work blending cinema, painting, and sculpture. The black-and-white video depicts an angry, lonely man whose solitude is filled by a stray dog, leading him through unknown territories. Shot entirely in one room with meticulous detail, the video concludes with the man transformed but accompanied by the dog's loyalty. León and Cociña previously directed a video for The Smile's single 'Thin Thing' in 2022.