Aldous Harding’s songs rarely have straightforward sequences, but she doesn’t need plot to make the stories feel alive, jiggyraps writes.
The singer-songwriter Aldous Harding doesn’t like to explain herself. A folk artist with a chameleonic voice and a spooky, cryptic lyricism, Harding has deployed many metaphors for her opaque, distinctive songcraft. She has said that her writing process is partially one of “dissociation,” and described herself as a “song actor,” writing songs as roles to be performed or exorcized.
The daughter of a folk singer, Harding started writing songs as a teen-ager, when she was living on a farm in Geraldine—a small rural town that she has described as having no record store. Her career began when, while busking outside a venue on the night that the singer-songwriter Anika Moa was set to perform, she caught the attention of the headlining act andto play support. Soon afterward, Harding toured with a country collective, the Eastern, for two years.
Harding’s songs rarely have straightforward sequences, and listening to them can induce disorienting headspaces all their own, but she doesn’t need plot to make the stories feel alive; her delivery renders half the image. Harding’s songs can feel like impressions, with singing that extends from a wraithlike whisper to a low-toned croon, many of them portraying isolated, eccentric, or wayward characters. “Well, you know I’m married / And I was bored out of my mind,” she sings on “Passion Babe.
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