Aldous Harding has announced her new album ‘Train On The Island’ and shared the first single ‘One Stop’ – listen below.
The New Zealand singer-songwriterwill release her fifth studio record and the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Warm Chris’ on May 8 and you can pre-order your copy on CD, standard black vinyl or limited-edition blue vinyl here.
The first single is ‘One Spot’, a stripped-back track built around a singular piano motif and Harding’s multi-tracked vocals that has a wiry and enigmatic aura.
Check out the video, directed by Michelle Henning, here:
‘Train OnTheIsland’ has been co-produced by Harding’s long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where they worked together on all of her previous LPs.
Aldous Harding – ‘TrainOnTheIsland’tracklist:
- ‘I AteTheMost’
- ‘One Stop’
- ‘Train OnTheIsland’
- ‘Worms’
- ‘VenusInTheZinnia’
- ‘If Lady Does It’
- ‘San Francisco’
- ‘What Am IGonnaDo?’
- ‘Riding That Symbol’
- ‘Coats’
In January,Harding announced an extensive UK, European and North American tour for later this yearand due to high demand, she has now added a third night at London’s Barbican on May 31. Tickets for that andall ofthe shows are availablenowand you can find yourshere.
The tour kicks off in the Brighton Dome on May 25 and will see her play shows in Southampton, Cambridge, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham as well as the trio of London shows, before heading to Europe. She arrives in the US on September 9 in Philadelphia, before the long trek comes to an end in Los Angeles on September 30. See the full list of shows here.
Harding last performed two sold-out shows at the Barbican back in 2023 while touring in support of ‘Warm Chris’. The album was pre-empted by two singles,‘Lawn’and‘Fever’, and earneda four-star reviewfromNME,who said the record was “a record defined by sparse and deliberate instrumentation”.
“It’s music that can take time to get your head around, a record that prefers to let Harding’s voice gently disorientate rather than ever let its listener settle,” it read.
“Harding’s endless twists and turns are nothing if not engaging… if you embrace ‘Warm Chris” strangeness,you’llbe justly rewarded.”
Elsewhere, Harding recentlyteamed up with Sleaford Mods on their new single ‘Elitest G.O.A.T.’, which dropped in January.