The Hope Six Demolition Project is the ninth studio album by the English singer-songwriter and musician PJ Harvey,[3] released on 15 April 2016 on Island Records.

[4] The album was created in sessions open to the public as part of an art installation at Somerset House in London called Recording in Progress.

[19] Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune praised the album, writing that it "builds masterfully to a powerful, closing one-two punch".

[21] Vice journalist Robert Christgau was more reserved in his praise, briefly describing the record as "politics according to Polly, meaning keen observation, analytic detachment, and paradoxically forgiving melodies scarred again and again by baked-in pessimism and misanthropy".

[31] Upon its release, the opening track and second single, "The Community of Hope", drew criticism directly from politicians running for the council seat in Ward 7 in Washington, D.C., with former DC Mayor Vincent C. Gray saying "I will not dignify this inane composition with a response", and his campaign treasurer Chuck Thies insulting Harvey with "PJ Harvey is to music what Piers Morgan is to cable news.

[9] At times, The Hope Six Demolition Project's lyrical content was criticized for being political without literally proposing government policy.

Laura Snapes of Pitchfork asked, "By pointing out the problems in these three communities, but proposing no solutions, is she (Harvey) just as responsible for their desertion as the global powers that came before her?