At a crossroads, PJ Harvey went back home to rekindle her imagination

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There was a moment after PJ Harvey released her ninth studio album in 2016 when she wasn't certain if she even wanted to make music anymore.

"I really just wanted to really step back a bit and think, 'Okay, what do I want to do with my remaining years? Is it this, still?'," she tells World Cafe during her visit to WXPN's studios.

In the subsequent years, Harvey found her way back to songwriting by rediscovering a part of her past. She rekindled that playfulness she used to feel when she first started making music. Harvey's latest album, I Inside the Old Year Dying, lends itself to the sort of fantastic imagination that allows us to construct entire worlds as children.