The singer-songwriter took to her social media to share a New Year update, which also saw her share a playlist of songs she found “inspiring and strengthening” in 2025.
Originally taking shape as part of Harvey’s forthcoming album, “Voyager” found new inspiration when physicist Professor Brian Cox invited her to contribute music to his ongoing Emergence tour. The song takes its name from NASA’s Voyager probes, launched in 1977 and still traveling through interstellar space nearly five decades later.
Harvey explained that she approached the song by imagining the perspective of Voyager 2 itself, asking what the spacecraft might say if it could communicate directly with Earth. That idea, combined with research into the history of Voyager 1 and 2 and discussions with composer Dario Marianelli about orchestral accompaniment, helped shape the finished piece.
She wrote: “2025 saw the end of the ‘I Inside the Old Year Dying’ tour in Australia and Japan in March. The two-year tour was such a wonderful experience to have been a part of, and I hugely enjoyed being able bring the music to life in a shared experience.
“Since then I have been writing songs for my next album and poems for my next book, which is a process that always surprises and challenges me, but one I realise I am committed to and love.”
Her playlist, which you can listen to below, includes tracks from techno auteur Tim Hecker through to artists such as Robbie Basho, Clarissa Connelly and Laura Cannell.
