Vinyl Record
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? - Demos
PJ Harvey - Is This Desire? - Demos on LP vinyl. A 2021 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 2021
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 2021 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Is This Desire? - Demos returns to the private sketches behind PJ Harvey's 1998 album, one of the strangest and most atmospheric turns in her catalogue. The original record moved away from the stark trio attack and the theatrical breadth of To Bring You My Love, entering a world of electronics, ghost stories, rivers, rooms, damaged women and nocturnal pressure. The demos reveal how much of that world was already present before the final production: Angelene, The Sky Lit Up, A Perfect Day Elise and The Wind retain their narrative charge, while the more skeletal settings make the characters feel even more isolated. This 2021 release belongs to Harvey's archival reissue programme, but it is not merely a completist object. It shows the songs before the album's uneasy polish, when the desire in the title still feels like a question asked in the dark.
The demos matter because Is This Desire? is one of Harvey's key transformation records, and these versions expose the writing underneath its electronic atmosphere. They clarify how her late-1990s storytelling grew from stark voice-and-song foundations into a haunted studio language.
For collectors, this is the deeper companion to Is This Desire?, especially valuable for anyone following Harvey's demo series as a parallel catalogue. It is strongest when heard after the 1998 album, where the contrast between sketch and finished atmosphere becomes the point.
Sparse demo versions of late-1990s PJ Harvey: haunted vocals, skeletal guitar and keyboard shapes, narrative unease, electronic shadows in embryo and intimate room-scale tension.
Recommended for: PJ Harvey collectors following the demos reissue series; Fans of Is This Desire? and its darker narrative world; Listeners interested in songwriting before final production; Collectors of intimate archival versions with real album context.
What album does Is This Desire? - Demos accompany? It accompanies PJ Harvey's 1998 album Is This Desire?, presenting demo versions from that writing period. When was this demos release issued? It was issued in 2021 as part of PJ Harvey's catalogue reissue and demos programme. Which songs are important here? Angelene, The Sky Lit Up, A Perfect Day Elise and The Wind are central because they show the album's characters and atmosphere in earlier form.