{"id":2480438,"date":"2026-06-29T13:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480438"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:38:56","slug":"pj-harvey-announces-new-song-voyager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pj-harvey-announces-new-song-voyager\/","title":{"rendered":"PJ Harvey Announces New Song &#8220;Voyager&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-59404\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pjharvey.net\/\"><strong>PJ Harvey<\/strong><\/a> announces \u2018Voyager\u2019, her first new music following the release of I Inside the Old Year Dying in 2023. Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition 7\u2033 vinyl, exclusive to the PJH store.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PJ Harvey - Voyager (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" 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><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, \u2018Voyager\u2019 takes its name from the NASA probes launched in 1977, still travelling through interstellar space nearly 50 years on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polly says, <em>\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. It immediately made him think of the Voyager craft and the sound of its signal being sent back to Earth.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I\u2019m very happy with the end result, and it\u2019s wonderful to hear the orchestral score bring such expansiveness to my music. I thoroughly enjoyed researching the history and journey of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/?s=Voyager\"><strong>Voyager 1 &amp; 2<\/strong><\/a>, 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<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XzCjzFsGl_\">Listen and watch the video<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pjharvey.lnk.to\/voyagerWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pre-order the limited edition 7\u2033 vinyl<\/a>, exclusive to the PJH store.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astrobiology,<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/author\/keith_cowing\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/265c1ec3d6dc55473abfd76e0fc0a50e6e55af16308beaaee9a756b1d4f4fbd6?s=120&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/265c1ec3d6dc55473abfd76e0fc0a50e6e55af16308beaaee9a756b1d4f4fbd6?s=240&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-bio-text\">\n\t\t<!-- .author-bio-header --><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tExplorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager\/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na\u2019Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp&#8230;\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/astrobiology.com\/author\/keith_cowing\/\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Keith Cowing\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-bio-text -->\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- .author-bio --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source astrobiology.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PJ Harvey announces \u2018Voyager\u2019, her first new music following the release of I Inside the Old Year Dying in 2023. Listen and watch the video, and pre-order the limited edition 7\u2033 vinyl, exclusive to the PJH store. Recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, \u2018Voyager\u2019 takes its name from the NASA probes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[344600,356990,366597,21800,399092,488276,488277],"class_list":["post-2480438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-brian-cox","tag-carl-sagan","tag-interstellar","tag-music","tag-voyager","tag-voyager-1","tag-voyager-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PJ-Harvey-Announces-New-Song-Voyager.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480440,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480438\/revisions\/2480440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}