Aldous Harding

Aldous Harding is the stage name of Hannah Harding, a singer-songwriter from Lyttelton, New Zealand, whose voice bends and stretches in ways that made critics reach for comparisons to Kate Bush and Scott Walker when her self-titled debut arrived in 2014. She signed to 4AD and began a sustained collaboration with producer John Parish, releasing a sequence of albums that have moved steadily away from stark folk toward something harder to categorize: oblique lyrics, theatrical live performances, and songs that hold meaning just slightly out of reach. "The Barrel," from her 2019 album Designer, won the APRA Silver Scroll — New Zealand's most prestigious songwriting award — and Metacritic ranked Designer among the seven most critically acclaimed albums of that year. Her 2022 album Warm Chris reached number one in New Zealand, her first. In 2025, she released her fifth studio album, Train on the Island, continuing on 4AD.