Concorde 2, BrightonFamously intense New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding kicks off a sold-out tour of her third album with flair, if not quite fluidityArtists create. Performers put on an act. Agency matters. Explanations don’t. These are some of the conclusions you could draw from Aldous Harding’s enigmatic third album, Designer, a record released to wide critical delight (and some bafflement) at the end of April, which should bolster Harding’s burgeoning renown.Events, Harding seems to imply, happen by design on her watch, something made plain on this first night of the singer-songwriter’s sold-out European tour. Harding might look like an ordinary human in her 20s, wearing white trousers and a dark top, picking sensitively at a guitar. But that is where folk-singer conventionality ends. Continue reading…
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