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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 Images

I'm just an artist that makes things out of words and music and images. And I'm never quite sure what I'm going to end up with. But even in the early stages of writing a song, I very often see it in images and colours. It's almost as if I'm creating the music to go with a scene,. Almost like a scene from a film and I'll see the colours and the time of day. So the images, the words, the music, they all think each other really.

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