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PJ Harvey on how she turned her epic poem 'Orlam' into a potent new album

All Songs Considered

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The Power of Music

I wanted it to be very open to interpretation and I wanted it to feel as open as it feels to me when being in that sort of landscape, but also coming back to the music. It was about wanting to tap into that really pure place where you just feel and you just experience and nothing yet really has a name. But that's the beauty of it too is that when you're a child, nothing really does have a name. So it's sort of just seeing everything in news for the first time and then really looking at it again and asking what is this?

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