{"id":67265,"date":"2026-06-24T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/pj-harvey-goes-interstellar-on-new-voyager-single\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T13:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T13:22:46","slug":"pj-harvey-goes-interstellar-on-new-voyager-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/pj-harvey-goes-interstellar-on-new-voyager-single\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Harvey Goes Interstellar on New &#8216;Voyager&#8217; Single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pj-harvey\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pj-harvey\" data-tag=\"pj-harvey\">PJ Harvey<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/pj-harvey-i-inside-the-old-year-dying-review-1234782423\/\">last album<\/a> found her singing about a fictionalized version of her home country. For her next project, she\u2019s headed as far there as humanly (or inhumanly) possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn her somber new single, \u201cVoyager,\u201d she imagines what the voice of the <em>Voyager 2<\/em>, a space probe NASA launched in 1977, would say. \u201cForce fields, high winds, cold moons, bright rings, hear my signal, will you follow?\u201d she sings, her voice sounding spectral with glitches. \u201cLook back at us as a speck of dirt.\u201d Keyboards undulate between two notes, quivering like a fading signal, as she sings, \u201cChoose light, choose love.\u201d Strings swell around her as her voice lifts heavenward at the end. The song features in particle physicist and BBC personality <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/brian-cox\/\" id=\"auto-tag_brian-cox\" data-tag=\"brian-cox\">Brian Cox<\/a>\u2018s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/briancoxlive.co.uk\/\">Emergence world tour<\/a>. A seven-inch of the song is available for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pjharvey.lnk.to\/voyager\">preorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PJ Harvey - Voyager (Official Video)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XzCjzFsGl_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the \u2018voice\u2019 of <em>Voyager 2,\u201d <\/em>Harvey said in a statement. \u201cI have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Voyager 2 <\/em>and its twin, <em>Voyager 1<\/em>, are the only spacecrafts to exit the sun\u2019s heliosphere, measuring \u201cmagnetic fields, particles, and plasma waves in interstellar space,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/voyager\/interstellar-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NASA<\/a>. <em>Voyager 2<\/em> passed Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune before reaching interstellar space in 2018. Both <em>Voyagers<\/em> carry <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/voyager\/voyager-golden-record-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a \u201cgolden record,\u201d<\/a> a gold-plated copper LP designed by astronomer Carl Sagan that doubles as a time capsule to tell possible alien lifeforms the history of Earth, as well as recordings of <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/voyager\/golden-record-contents\/sounds\/#music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">music from all over the planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated,\u201d Harvey said. \u201cIt immediately made him think of the <em>Voyager<\/em> craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth. With these ideas as my starting point I let the song develop, and I discussed an orchestral accompaniment with Dario Marianelli.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn the song, Harvey plays percussion and a Prophet-5 synthesizer (a go-to instrument for everyone from Kraftwerk to John Carpenter), which includes drum programming from Damien Quintard and Marianelli\u2019s arrangement, played by the Miraval Orchestra. Brian Cox plays a Juno synth bass on the song while his son, George Cox, plays percussive bass. They recorded the song in Provence this past February.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m very happy with the end result, and it\u2019s wonderful to hear the orchestral score bring such expansiveness to my music,\u201d Harvey said. \u201cI thoroughly enjoyed researching the history and journey of <em>Voyager 1 <\/em>and<em> 2<\/em>, and was glad to be able to quote the great Carl Sagan within the song, and his famous description of our fragile and beautiful \u2018pale blue dot\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHarvey teased her next project in a 2024 <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/pj-harvey-i-inside-the-old-year-dying-tour-interview-1235103173\/\">Rolling Stone <\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/pj-harvey-i-inside-the-old-year-dying-tour-interview-1235103173\/\">interview<\/a>, saying that she puts a lot of thought into what she wants to spend her time on. \u201cAs an artist, I sort of jump into something I\u2019m really consumed by, and that becomes the theme for a number of years,\u201d she said. \u201cAs you get older, and you see that there\u2019s a finite amount of years left to do all the things you want to pursue\u2026 I choose what I want to get lost in for years at a time quite carefully now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/pj-harvey-voyager-single-1235582271\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PJ Harvey\u2018s last album found her singing about a fictionalized version of her home country. 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