New single from PJ Harvey! Her first new music since 2023. No definitive album announcement, but I'm pretty sure it's coming.
The concept for this is, well, a bit staggering. Here's a quote from the YouTube video that explains the genesis of the song:
"The song had already been taking shape as part of Harvey’s next album, when Professor Brian Cox invited her to write a song for his ‘Emergence' world tour. Recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, Voyager takes its name from the NASA probes launched in 1977, still traveling through interstellar space nearly 50 years on. The music highlights the interplay between swelling string arrangements and pulsing synthesizer signals stretching out into the cosmos: icy, ethereal, and pensive, yet threaded with an unmistakable humanity. Across it, Harvey contemplates our small, fragile place in the universe; a 'pale-blue dot', a flake of snow, dust in a sunbeam, and finds in that vastness a quiet plea to choose light and to choose love."
Polly Jean is always full of surprises. I love that.
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I guested on The Average Reviews again last night to discuss Sleepaway Camp, one of the great summer camp slashers ever!
We really had a blast with this, and I even picked up some insights on the film that had previously never occurred to me.
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When I walked into the comic shop Wednesday night, I had completely forgotten that this was coming out this week:
Here's the solicitation blurb:
"Legendary comic book creator John Byrne returns to the title he first drew 50 years ago, Uncanny X-Men, with this one-of-a-kind new graphic novel series, X-Men: Elsewhen. This three-volume graphic novel series picks up the story from Byrne’s original run, taking the characters in new and unexpected directions."
This is just crazy to me, and I tore through the first few chapters in short order. It had me GLOWING all night, because despite the lack of Chris Claremont, this felt exactly like that era of Uncanny X-Men, and it was fantastic to revisit.
There are two more of these coming to complete Byrne's new run. The really crazy thing is, Byrne did this for him. He started it and for most of the duration, worked on it without thoughts of publishing beyond his website, Byrne Robotics, which you can check out HERE.
Playlist:
Jim Williams - Possessor OST
John Carpenter - Lost Themes IV: Noir
Algiers - Eponymous
Gnarls Barkley - Atlanta
D'nell - First Magic
Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer OST
John Carpenter - Prince of Darkness
John Carpenter and Alan Howarth - Big Trouble in Little China
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Eldritch Lace Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
• Six of Pentacles
• Two of Wands
• King of Pentacles
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