Hear PJ Harvey cover Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘Red Right Hand’

Last night the BBC gave a first play to PJ Harvey’s new cover of ‘Red Right Hand’, originally penned by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

The song helps soundtrack drama ‘Peaky Blinders’, its shivering, ghostly edit being commissioned by producer Flood, who wanted the programme to seem less American. “We’re trying to make it feel much more European and British and PJ fits that bill perfectly,” he told NME. “I phoned Polly up and she was very interested. We’re trying to deconstruct all of Polly’s material and then weave it through, it’s very cutting-edge and modern.”

This is PJ Harvey’s first new material since the 2013 protest song ‘Shaker Aamer’, which was devoted to the British national of the same name, imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for over ten years. It also follows on from the Mercury Prize-winning ‘Let England Shake’, which came out in 2011.

Listen below to PJ Harvey’s cover of Nick Cave.