Things I Like: September 2023

Music, TV shows and links I've liked over the past month

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PJ Harvey’s album I Inside the Old Year Dying recently came onto my radar. It’s been a perfect record for transitioning from summer into fall. I love to see established artists making some of their best work as they get older and this right here is a wonderful example of that phenomenon. Something of a companion piece to her 2022 poetry book Orlam, Harvey wrote these songs using an 1886 glossary of a strange dialect of English that is native to her home county of Dorset. For example, “Conzum-ed with twanketen / Only eased by scratching” translates to “Consumed by melancholy / That’s only eased by writing.”