“The irresistible Warm Chris is proof Aldous Harding is at the top of her game”
“On her new album, the New Zealand folk auteur uses an expanded sonic palette to consider intimacy and performance”
“The New Zealand songwriter returns with a sparse and oblique album whose gentle psychedelic folk and beguiling free association proudly resist interpretation.”
“Over the course of three albums since her 2014 self-titled debut, New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding has found a musical identity in sonic shapeshifting. Harnessing her voice like a ventriloquist’s puppet, Harding’s releases have traversed everything from pensive, finger-picking folk on 2019’s The Barrel to gothic piano balladry on 2017’s Imagining My Man and wistful spoken word on 2014’”
“Aldous Harding’s voice – always prone in the past to a dramatic shift in tone – is more chameleonic than ever on her fourth record ‘Warm Chris’. The New Zealander will lay back in a mellow croon, then leap dramatically in an instant into a high-pitched squeal. At points, her accent itself seems to change – on ‘She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain’ (which bears no relation to the traditional folk so”
“It’s a curious and lovely thing that Aldous Harding has become, in her own eccentric manner, something of a superstar in indie and folk circles. Her 2014 self-titled debut album hardly suggested global prominence for this enigmatic New Zealander: its beauty and skill were disarmingly clear, but it felt more like a cultish, newly-unearthed gem of a long-lost folk tradition than the green shoots of ”
