-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- I arrive at the sold out Gorilla venue awaiting Aldous Harding to take to the stage. It’s so hot, and the extremely large fans are churning out mildly cold air, whilst making noises as loud as the current Manchester road works. I think about Aldous’ music style and how these fans might interfere […]
-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Recently crowned as having made the best album of the year by Rough Trade, New Zealand’s Aldous Harding is at a sold out Gorilla tonight for a victory lap of that very fine album, Party. It’s her second full length effort, and is appearing left, right and centre across other early album of […]
Aldous Harding, has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, plus details of her biggest UK and European tour yet. Full UK dates below. Taken from her latest album, Party, the visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand film-maker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My […]
Following the recent single ‘Horizon’ – a lover’s call to arms which also features on her 4AD debut – Aldous Harding releases its follow-up. Check out new single and video for ‘Imagining My Man’; an intensely intimate listen as Aldous explores the curiosity of a lover’s idiosyncrasies. The video was created by ‘Horizon’ director Charlotte […]
The talented New Zealand-er Aldous Harding, has recently joined the 4AD family. She now shares new song ‘Horizon’, presenting a powerful opening statement, alongside a startling companion video. Having recently opened for label mates Deerhunter, Aldous Harding will be bringing her extraordinary live show to the UK and Europe later this year. ALDOUS HARDING MAY […]
– THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – The intimacy of The Castle Hotel is palpable, as support Chloe Foy, tonight requests everyone to move forward, get closer, and feel the innards of the music. She’s gentle and gracious, and her music is charming, much like curling up with a classic book such as one by Jane […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – New Zealand folk singer songwriter Hannah Hardings’ English-accented singing voice is strong enough to have drawn comparisons to Vashti Bunyan, but it’s not as though she’s really forcing it, like Joanna Newsom. The delivery of her lyrics – which one could envisage were written on a remote farm, free from technology – seem all too natural to […]
The plain unadorned picture of Aldous Harding (actual name Hannah) looking back at you on the cover of her début, eponymously titled album, in many ways hints at the subtle pleasures hidden within. It’s an album of stark beauty, an album which could have been made any time in the last fifty, if not a […]