‘Voyager’ by PJ Harvey, out now on Partisan Records: https://pjharvey.lnk.to/voyager

PJ Harvey returns with Voyager, a striking first signal from her next artistic chapter and first new music since 2023’s Grammy-nominated I Inside the Old Year Dying. The song had already been taking shape as part of Harvey’s next album, when Professor Brian Cox invited her to write a song for his ‘Emergence’ world tour. Recorded with a full orchestra at Miraval Studios in Provence, Voyager takes its name from the NASA probes launched in 1977, still travelling through interstellar space nearly 50 years on. The music highlights the interplay between swelling string arrangements and pulsing synthesiser signals stretching out into the cosmos: icy, ethereal, and pensive, yet threaded with an unmistakable humanity. Across it, Harvey contemplates our small, fragile place in the universe; a ‘pale-blue dot’, a flake of snow, dust in a sunbeam, and finds in that vastness a quiet plea to choose light and to choose love.

Directed by Professor Brian Cox & Nic Stacey
Edited by Nic Stacey
Photography by Chris Parks
Archive courtesy of NASA, JPL-Caltech, RetroHD and National Space Centre

Written by PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey: Prophet-5, vocals, percussion
Damien Quintard: Drum programming, mixing, production
Dario Marianelli: Orchestral arrangement and conductor
The Miraval Orchestra
Professor Brian Cox: Juno synth bass
George Cox: Percussive bass guitar
Recorded at Miraval Studios, Provence, February 2026

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LYRICS:

long years, far place
dark nights, dark days
frozen, silent
bearing Earth-songs

force fields, high winds
cold moons, bright rings
hear my signal
will you follow?

look back at us
as a speck of dust
darkness our home
bear it through love

last note, last sign
Neptune, Triton
fading signal
choose light…choose love

Voyager, look back
at a pale-blue dot
all we don’t know
a flake of snow

dust in a sunbeam, blue dot
so far, so cold
kindness, care for…
our shelter… tender