“Paste Pick: Harding’s fifth album is just as peculiar as its predecessors—a minimalist, open-hearted jaunt through the twisty-turny annals of the Kiwi musician’s incomprehensible brain.”
“On her spellbinding fifth album, Aldous Harding steps closer than ever to the camera lens without coming into focus. It’s an oblique character study of herself, and the best album of her career so far.”
“A piece of art can stick around for a million reasons, but a common determinant of longevity lies in its readiness to be reinterpreted. With each passing decade comes a fresh vantage point; successive generations and new thinkers clear novel paths to the same destination. Aldous Harding's records illustrate this theory in accelerated miniature. A dozen listens to Train on the Island, the New Zeal”
“enigmatic singer-songwriter delivers mercurial masterwork”
“even whimsy-resistant listeners will love these lucid, luminous songs”
