PJ Harvey sends Voyager drifting through the dark with an orchestra behind it

PJ Harvey’s Voyager arrives on 24 June with the kind of premise that could collapse into cosmic cheese in lesser hands: a song written in the voice of NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. Fortunately, Harvey has spent her career making strange vantage points feel human. The track was composed for Professor Brian Cox’s Emergence tour and recorded with full orchestral accompaniment at Miraval Studios in Provence, giving the song a vastness that suits its subject. Voyager is not just about space hardware floating through the dark. It is about distance, fragility, signal, memory and the unnerving fact that humanity once sent a golden record into the void as if hoping the universe might eventually understand us. Harvey’s first new music since I Inside the Old Year Dying feels like a transmission from somewhere cold, beautiful and impossibly far away.

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