{"id":7004,"date":"2019-05-03T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2019-06-03T04:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:22:30","slug":"aldous-harding-designer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/aldous-harding-designer\/","title":{"rendered":"Aldous Harding <br>Designer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/designer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7006\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/designer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aldous Harding, Designer\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/designer-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/designer-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/designer.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>As she revealed on her breakthrough sophomore album, <i>Party<\/i>, Aldous Harding is an artist capable of shapeshifting not only track to track, but at times somewhere between verses. Her third album, <i>Designer<\/i> (4AD), seemingly belying its title, is similarly slippery, with Harding\u2019s voice being the most slithery of its elements.<\/p>\n<p>Leading off with \u201dFixture Picture,\u201d the record begins with a honey-toned acoustic reverie. Here, she evokes a somewhat bittersweet vibe, her band slowly joining in to fill in the empty spaces and add their voices to hers. By the second track, though, Harding has already changed pace, adapting a different voice and cadence for something more airy and light. That approach seems to contrast with <i>Party\u2019s<\/i> inherent darkness, but one can still glimpse the thread, however thin, that ties them and everything she\u2019s done together. On \u201cZoo Eyes,\u201d she veers between the deep vocals that characterized <i>Party<\/i> standout \u201cImagining My Man\u201d and a high-pitched voice that brings Blonde Hedhead\u2019s Kazu Makino to mind. The highlight here, though, is first single \u201cThe Barrel.\u201d The song\u2019s mid-tempo groove plays off of Harding\u2019s mix of voices, and the juxtaposition makes it standout all the more.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by noted PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish, <i>Designer<\/i> feels intimate, without being desolate, and intricate without being too precious. It\u2019s a charming record that has both resonance and effervescence, and shows Harding once again to be a unique talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As she revealed on her breakthrough sophomore album, <i>Party<\/i>, Aldous Harding is an artist capable of shapeshifting not only track to track, but at times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[835,34,2289],"class_list":["post-7004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-4ad","tag-album-review","tag-aldous-harding"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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