Album of the week: May 6 – Aldous Harding

May 6th 2019

Designer is the beguiling third studio album from eclectic New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. On the follow-up to her much lauded second record, Party, Harding straddles the intelligible and the straight-up perplexing, deftly threading her music with close details and tangled but compelling contrasts. Designer invites obsessive attention whilst always keeping us at arm’s length. With her opaque, poetic lyricism and playfully off-kilter arrangements, Harding imbues Designer with her enigmatic personality and a sense of disquiet that creeps underneath the sheer prettiness of her third LP, balancing the absurd against the alluring, the darkness against the light.


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