New PJ Harvey track

Polly Jean Harvey never ceases to amaze me with her originality and ability to reinvent herself for each new project she approaches. Yesterday, she appeared on the Andrew Marr show and performed a new song entitled "Let England Shake", which is the first glimpse of a new record currently in the works. The song features Harvey playing an autoharp over a loop taken from "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)" as performed by the Four Lads. The track is a surreal slice of freak folk which seems to evoke some of the weirdness of her work with John Parish on A Woman A Man Walked By (2009), while still being a wholly new idea (the loop is particularly an interesting choice). Aside from the performance, there is also a short interview with Marr in which they discuss her influences, and her chameleon tendencies in her back catalog. Here is the song and the interview.