PJ Harvey set to record new album

P J Harvey will enter the studio in late January to begin work on her ninth studio album. The follow up from 2007s White Chalk will mark a return in collaborating with John Parish; their first full album together since Dance Hall at Louse Point in 1996.

The album is set for release later in the year and is rumoured to include Carla Azar from Autolux, and Eric Drew Feldman (Captain Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Frank Black and Charlotte Hatherley).