On 8th May 2026, Aldous Harding will release her fifth studio album, Train On The Island. Now, the New Zealander shares a first taste in the form of the single ‘One Stop’. Premiered by Huw Stephens on his BBC 6Music radio show, ‘One Stop’ is accompanied by a Harding-fronted video directed by Michelle Henning, watch here. The 10-track Train On The Island was co-produced by long-time collaborator John Parish at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where...
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Sleaford Mods announce additional headline shows in Hobart and Perth, part of their upcoming Australian and New Zealand 2026 tour. Tickets on sale from 1pm local time here. This week Sleaford Mods teamed up with Aldous Harding for their new single, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T’, which was released on Tuesday, and taken from the band’s new album, The Demise Of Planet X, out today. Pulsing with chiming synths and propulsive beats, ‘Elitest G.O.A.T’ is a...
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Today, Aldous Harding releases her new album Warm Chris. The follow-up to 2019’s Designer, Warm Chris features singles ‘Lawn‘ and ‘Fever’ – released earlier this year to support from rage, STACK, Pilerats, Double J, PBS, 2SER and more. Accompanying the album’s release is ‘Tick Tock‘. Featuring a jaunty, immediate singalong chorus somewhere between traditional folk and a biting nursery rhyme, the single sees Harding utilising multiple voices to carve her own unique space in the alternative landscape. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership...
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Aldous Harding has released ‘Fever’, the second single from her forthcoming new album Warm Chris. Accompanying the song’s swaggering piano-driven staccato is an official video created by Harding and Martin Sagadin showcasing the many faces of the New Zealander. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios and...
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Aldous Harding returns to announce details of a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Designer. Warm Chris will be released on March 25 via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and its first single ‘Lawn’ is available now accompanied by visuals created by Harding and Martin Sagadin. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield...
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Known and loved by fans as the set-closer at her most recent live shows, Aldous Harding finally releases ‘Old Peel’ via 4AD. The one-off single was recorded with producer John Parish, who also worked on her last two albums Designer (2019) and Party (2017), at the end of her hugely successful 2019 European tour. The official video for ‘Old Peel’, directed by and starring Harding and long-time visual collaborator Martin...
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Bills & Aches & Blues features 18 of the label’s current artists covering a song of their choosing from 4AD’s past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD, 41 years after its inception. Bills & Aches & Blues will be released with standard vinyl and CD editions following on 23 July and a deluxe vinyl boxset later this year. To pre-order head to 4AD.ffm.to/billsandachesandblues. The first 12 months’ profits...
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In 2020, 4AD turned 40. Never one to be on time for a party, the label is commemorating that landmark this year with the release of Bills & Aches & Blues. The compilation features 18 of its current artists covering a song of their choosing from 4AD’s past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD, 41 years after its inception. Bills & Aches & Blues will be released on 2 April digitally, with...
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Aldous Harding reunites with the visionary director behind ‘The Barrel‘ – Martin Sagadin – for an equally compelling visual for ‘Zoo Eyes.’ It is the third and final single from her latest album, Designer, out now via 4AD. Enter a hypnogogic state once more… The National also share a new visual – ‘Hey Rosey‘ lifted from the band’s sixth record I Am Easy To Find. The video marks the...
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Designer, the third album by Aldous Harding is out today via 4AD. Listen here. The album finds the New Zealander hitting her creative stride. After the sleeper success of Party (internationally lauded and crowned Rough Trade Shop’s Album of 2017), Harding came off a 100-date tour and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding spent...
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She’s done it again. Aldous Harding shares a new song and video for ‘Fixture Picture’ from her forthcoming third album Designer, out April 26 via 4AD. Co-directed by Aldous Harding and Jack Whiteley, the video’s suspenseful opening scene finds Harding strumming her guitar on the white cliffs of Dover. The pay-off comes later with a dramatic and enigmatic live performance by Harding and her band inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Preorder Designer here.
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Aldous Harding is back. Watch the delightfully stirring, off-kilter video for new song ‘The Barrel.’ It is the first track from an album to be released Friday 26 April via 4AD – Designer. Harding reunites with John Parish, producer of previous album Party, on an album that again showcases an artist undoubtedly confident in their work. Preorder here. There is nothing more to be said apart from, watch the Martin Sagadin...
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Following on from her inclusion on the Meredith, Fairgrounds and Laneway Festival lineups, Aldous Harding is pleased to announce headline shows in Sydney & Melbourne in 2018. Aldous Harding will bring her extraordinarily captivating live show to the Sydney Festival Spiegeltent on Thursday 25 January and The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne on Wednesday 7 February. Further details below. Having spent the majority of 2017 touring in Europe and North America, this...
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Aldous Harding has aired a brand new song, ‘Elation’. Taken from the recording sessions for her recent album Party, Harding assumes the role of chanteuse, as the slow-burn of ‘Elation’ builds from a quiet lament to a dramatic zenith. Listen below! Earlier this summer, Harding performed the track exclusively for KEXP. Check out the startling performance here. Aldous Harding’s second album Party was recorded with John Parish in Bristol. She...
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Aldous Harding has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, taken from her latest album Party, watch it below. The visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand filmmaker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My Man’. Disquieting in its nature, and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary war film Apocalypse Now, Harding goes into further detail – “The concept is based on that awful...
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Aldous Harding has released her second album, Party. Aldous (real name Hannah) Harding worked with award-winning producer John Parish. Her songs draw from the core facets of life: death, birth, grief and love. There are few happy endings, but the power is in how Harding enters into battle. She’s known for her sinister torch songs, gentle laments and eerie odes delivered with a charismatic combination of hubris, shrewd wit and quiet horror. Harding’s work is one step removed from the...
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