PJ Harvey & John Parish

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Music

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Polly Jean Harvey—better known as PJ Harvey—is without question one of the most gifted songwriters of our time. Her debut album, Dry, came out in 1993 and was what the LA Times called a near “instant classic.” The same with her sophomore release, Rid of Me—which became an inspiration for Nirvana’s last album: In Utero.

Ten albums later and Polly continues to be not only a remarkable songwriter on her new album “I Inside the Old Year Dying” but...maybe more impressively...continues to find new musical territory and new voices to write from. Keeping her songs and artistry as interesting as it was when she first put music out 30 years ago.

John Parish, who’s been a frequent collaborator of Polly’s since the 1980's produced the new album—along with Flood—and joins Justin Richmond in conversation with Polly to discuss their process of working together, the beauty of Polly’s last few albums and how they bonded long ago over Captain Beefheart.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.0	Polygene Harvey, better known as PJ Harvey, is without question one of my favorite songwriters of all time.
0:18.0	Her debut album Dry came out in 93 and was what the LA Times called a near instant classic.
0:24.0	The same with her sophomore release, Rid of Me,
0:26.0	which became an inspiration for Nirvana's last album in utero.
0:30.0	Ten albums later, and Polly continues to be not only a remarkable songwriter on her new album
0:35.1	I Inside the Old You're Dying, but maybe more impressively continues to find new musical territory
0:41.2	and new voices to write from, keeping her songs and artistry as interesting
0:45.7	as they were when she first put out music over 30 years ago.
0:49.7	John Parish, who's been a frequent collaborator of Polly's since the 80s, produced the new album
0:54.7	along with Flood, and joins me in conversation with Polly to discuss their process of working together,
0:59.9	the beauty of Polly's last few albums, and how they bonded a long time ago over Captain B-Fart.
1:08.8	This is Broken Record.
1:10.3	Liner Notes for the Digital Age.
1:12.0	I'm Justin Richmond.
1:13.0	Here's my conversation with PJ Harvey and John Parish.
1:17.0	I'm very excited to be able to talk to the both of you.
1:21.0	I don't always think about you guys in unison, so it was fun to sort of think about how you guys work together on these things. But you guys met in the 80s, which I didn't realize was the case.
1:32.0	That's right, we met in the, in 1987, I believe.
1:37.0	And it was through your band, John?
1:41.0	Yes, yeah, it was. It was the guitar player in my band, Jeremy Hog, I met Polly at a party and she'd been
1:49.7	singing some songs and he was really impressed with her and he mentioned her to me and then she came to a couple of gigs of the band and gave me some tapes of the songs she was writing. She was a teenager and her voice already sounded really great to me back at that time
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