PJ Harvey has announced a new box set collecting music from her back catalog. B-Sides, Demos, and Rarities is due out November 4 via Island Records/Universal Music Group. The release will be available in 6xLP, 3xCD, and digital formats, and includes 59 songs spanning Harvey’s three-decade career. The box set features previously-unreleased songs, alternate versions of preexisting songs, and other material that has been previously unavailable in physical formats or on streaming services.
Ahead of the release, PJ Harvey has shared demos of three songs from the box set. “Dry” and “Missed” both first appeared on Harvey’s 1993 album Rid of Me, while “Somebody’s Down, Somebody’s Name” was originally included on the limited edition version of Harvey’s 1995 album To Bring You My Love as a B-side.
The box set was mastered by Jason Mitchell in collaboration with John Parish, who worked as a producer on PJ Harvey albums including To Bring You My Love, White Chalk, and Let England Shake, among others. It also includes rare archival photos, with art direction from Maria Mochnacz and Rob Crane.
PJ Harvey’s ninth studio album The Hope Six Demolition Project was released in 2016. Earlier this year, she released a collection of demos recorded during the making of her celebrated 2011 album Let England Shake, and has a new reissue of The Hope Six Demolition Project due out in March 2023. Island Records and Universal Music Group will also release new vinyl reissues of every album in the PJ Harvey catalog, as well as her two albums with John Parish. Preorders for each reissue are available on the official PJ Harvey merch site.
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Disc 1:
01 Dry (Demo)
02 Man-Size (Demo)
03 Missed (Demo)
04 Highway ’61 Revisited (Demo)
05 Me-Jane (Demo)
06 Daddy
07 Lying in the Sun
08 Somebody’s Down, Somebody’s Name
09 Darling Be There
10 Maniac
11 One Time Too Many
12 Harder
13 Naked Cousin
14 Losing Ground
15 Who Will Love Me Now
16 Why D’ya Go to Cleveland
Disc 2:
01 Instrumental #1
02 The Northwood
03 The Bay
04 Sweeter Than Anything
05 Instrumental #3
06 The Faster I Breathe the Further I Go (4-Track Version)
07 Nina in Ecstasy 2
08 Rebecca
09 Instrumental #2
10 This Wicked Tongue
11 Memphis
12 30
13 66 Promises
14 As Close As This
15 My Own Private Revolution
16 Kick It to the Ground (4-Track)
17 The Falling
18 The Phone Song
19 Bows & Arrows
20 Angel
21 Stone
Disc 3:
01 97°
02 Dance
03 Cat On the Wall (Demo)
04 You Come Through (Demo)
05 Uh Huh Her (Demo)
06 Evol (Demo)
07 Wait
08 Heaven
09 Liverpool Tide
10 The Big Guns Called Me Back Again
11 The Nightingale
12 Shaker Aamer
13 Guilty (Demo)
14 I’ll Be Waiting (Demo)
15 Homo Sappy Blues
16 The Age of the Dollar (Demo)
17 The Camp
18 An Acre of Land
19 The Crowded Cell
20 The Sandman (Demo)
21 The Moth (Demo)
22 Red Right Hand