Aldous Harding Designer

Aldous Harding DesignerDESCRIPTION Vinyl LP pressing. Designer finds Aldous Harding hitting her creative stride. After Party, Harding came off a 100 date tour and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding spent 15 days recording and 10 days mixing at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth and Bristol's J&J Studio and Playpen. From the bold strokes of opening track "Fixture Picture," there is an

and there's a feature from Amir Townes

" Given the sonic Dadaism of much of Pere Ubu's work

The Lone Wolf

Daniel Crawford and more

and Trouble Will Find Me's best moments -- the propulsive "Don't Swallow the Cap" and the one-two sucker punch of pre-set closers "Humiliation" and "Pink Rabbits" -- find Matt Berninger and his laconic baritone nervously pacing the deck of a sinking ship while simultaneously trying to find his sea legs as his bandmates constantly pull the rug out from under him with familiar rhythms and melodies that hide countless trap doors

can't lose

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and a finale of Thundercat-propelled funk

"Sectoral Heterochromia" into a pop song like the Last Shadow Puppets do so deftly on the sparkling

Vernon turns the cabin's limitations into assets on "The Wolves"

Format Detail: LP This is a gatefold with two full color sleeves

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