PJ Harvey Reportedly Releasing New Album in Early 2011

As she's been promising for over a year, British songstress extraordinaire PJ Harvey is set to release her new studio album sometime in early 2011. As first reported by TwentyFourBit, longtime Harvey collaborator Mick Turner revealed on his MySpace blog that the record was finished this past May and that it's a "remarkable piece of work." Not that he's biased or anything, but "remarkable" and "PJ Harvey" usually do go hand in hand.

Such news should satiate the Harvey faithful, even though last year she released 'A Woman a Man Walked By,' her second collaboration with her longtime pal, songwriter/producer John Parish. Harvey's last proper release was 2007's piano-driven album 'White Chalk,' a vastly underrated collection of songs that drifted away from the guitar-centric qualities of her catalog and showed a more personable, vulnerable side of her. Over the last year though, she's played two new songs live, 'Let England Shake' and 'The Last Living Rose,' that were written using the autoharp.

"All I can say is that I am pleased with it, because I feel it's a grand departure from anything before," she told Spinner back in 2009. "If I've done that, then for me, it's worked. I'm already feeling like I did, and I'm happy. I'm very pleased because I'm not repeating myself."

At this point, we'd assume nothing less from miss Harvey. Check out a performance of 'The Last Living Rose' below.