PJ Harvey Unveils Single 'The Crowded Cell'

PJ Harvey has been active on the soundtrack front recently, creating original music for 2019 stage play All About Eve, and composing the score for UK drama series The Virtues, written and directed by Shane Meadows (This Is England). Harvey has now unveiled a new song created for the closing credits of the show, an intimately recorded yet rousing ballad titled 'The Crowded Cell' you can listen to below. Harvey shared her enthusiasm for the musical collaboration with Meadows...

"I am so happy to have provided the original music for this extraordinary and powerful new drama by a director I have admired and followed all my life. Shane has a unique directness and sensitivity to his work which I am drawn to and aspire to in my own work, so our collaboration was open and trusting. I sent Shane ideas as demos for him to try out as he edited and let him choose what he used and where to the greatest effect. In the end we both loved how the demos worked so left them as they were, adding to the raw beauty of the piece."