![]() ![]() Repeated listens will give you a better idea of how Harding creates this dizzying effect, but it remains difficult to pin down precisely what all this means, especially when you take into account Harding’s cryptic, warped lyrics. It’s an album where each song becomes its own journey, often led by a handful of Aldous Hardings, her voice modulated and stacked atop itself, pulling you in several directions at once. Warm Chris is a collection of off-kilter pop music, songs where hooks are buried and choruses unclear, but whose rewards make themselves known regardless. ![]() With Warm Chris, Harding continues that trajectory and establishes herself as one of the most consistently surprising and satisfying songwriters working today. ![]() The New Zealand singer-songwriter first made waves back in 2019 with the release of her third record Designer, a collection of both delicate and playful songs best described as folk-indebted, but which resist simple classification. Here, we’ve compiled a list of the 25 releases that have stuck with us so far as the next big release week looms ahead. While the first two years of the pandemic saw such releases trickling in, 2022 has already proven to be the year in which that dam finally burst-it feels like every week there’s a new slate of records that’s as solid as what you’d expect to find over the course of a month in pre-pandemic times, with the unfortunate side effect of many of these albums being left in the dust as soon as the next big thing comes along to take its place. While there certainly were some highly memorable musical capsules from those years, it wasn’t until we were given a few years to catch up with our thoughts that this watershed moment of career-defining opuses and long-anticipated debuts-taking the form of introspective self-realizations and cathartic political diatribes-finally hit. I think what the “at least we’ll get some good music out of this” crowd failed to consider at the dawn of the Trump years was the fact that even before he took office, we were all facing a nationwide economic and creative burnout that prevented the next great punk record from being made. ![]()
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