after listening to Aldous for the past 4 weeks to my surprise i dont need psychedelics anymore, i just put on a good set of headphones turn up the volume and '' die of astonishment'' everytime! i havent bought music in 40+ yrs but with my savings i feel obliged to buy all her albums and i would encourage everyone else to the same, this young lady deserves and needs our support. thx. Aldous💖
First time i listened to Aldous Harding, not many musicians get me glued like this to the screen, she gave me pause to reflect, the music is truly spellbinding. Amazing stuff.
Kexp somehow manages to pull the most distilled version of these artists and performances. Not sure what the recipe is for this but almost always, the kexp version is the best one filmed and often audiologically produced as well. The muse must smile upon and dwell somewhere within that operation.
I have goosebumps, so refreshing to see a talented female giving no fuks about sitting pretty and sticking to the rules. Truely rare and authentic talent!
I love this woman! And her "take me as I am or not at all" kinda attitude. It's so refreshing and authentic and she's such a natural talent. Might have a slight lady crush on her as well n I don't even swing that way, but she's beautiful and stunning in so many ways. Breathtaking and magnificent performance from Aldous here, stellar! 💪💗✌💚🙏
I was the Carlos Castinada of my high school back in the 70s. I told others where to find and how to use Datura. Carlos' account of the herb was so accurate. If it like spirit liked you, you saw red. It liked me a lot! If the spirit didn't like you you saw black. That is: some people who take Jimson weed went temporarily blind. I do not recommend it - as you say: madness.
Dangerous hippy bollocks. Datura is an incredibly powerful hallucinogen, if you take too much it will make you perform a very realistic impression of having a psychotic episode. I know, myself and friends took it.
Alway's changed me from the first time I ever listened to auldus ☺️ her beuety is so so close to my me" no Shi,,,,t pure 🔯. Take her into your space a lott to offer"" thanks Aldous.. 😷 hope your well.
Ms. Harding is so attractive in every sense for that real humanness she expresses. The feeling is full, translated through her music that lands down hard, unfolds within, and carries me away. I LOVE this.
A lot of commenters are confused about the facial expressions. Listen to anyone describe Jay-Z in the studio. Making faces is common for vocalists who are aiming for a precise sound. Most tone it down for live performances. Also, most vocalists don't duplicate their studio sound when playing live. They do a casual interpretation. Note that she doesn't. I'm not saying all vocalists do this. But if you pay attention, many do, especially when they are being very serious about making a specific sound. Which she is.
@@MyLovelyDeadFriends usually artists give mediocre live performances. She never fails because she summons sounds, her entire face is part of her instruments.
I have also seen that and I'm pretty sure she goes farther, into the playing something like different characters when she's performing. Sometimes she keeps the expression on while not singing and between songs. In the "Designer" performance for KEXP she's basically in character the whole time.
To quote Mark Hollis "I get on great with silence. I don't have a problem with it. If you're going to break into it, try to have a reason for doing it.". He was a genius, and so is Aldous Harding.
I wasn't too sure about her new album upon first or second listen. I absolutely love it now. It's one of those that really grow on you. Such an exciting new talent.
If you hear one of her songs and are not sure if you like it or not, watch her perform it and witness the feeling and you cant help but love everything about it. It mesmerizing and infectious. An amazing artist.
There is something aggressive about her facial expressions,yet her voice sounds so emotionally raw and vulnerable. It's a jarring juxtaposition. It's beautiful music regardless.
Absolutely adore this lady! Beautiful, talented and I love her authenticity and her "take me as I am or not at all" kinda attitude. Stunning in so many ways 💪💗✌💚
I remembers me of singers when they were just doing their thing and not worry so much about what they looked like, she's all into what she's doing and we can hear that too.
I guess he's her biggest fan, scared to ask a stupid question or something. I would trade with him any day of the week though and be equally intimidated.
I've never heard anyone with this number of different voices they draw on. Every phoneme seems hand-sculpted - how much breath, how much resonance, where's the attack, the sustain... but across 20? different "characters"? I always thought you had to pick one when you started out but here's someone moving between them and it's truly beyond words.
wow...she is so beautiful..I think any feelings of uncomfortable within myself has made me realize how caught up we all are in how we will be perceived so we hold ourselves in; I am so glad that she doesn't. What an inspiring soul.
I’ll tell ya, man, wow, Aldous Harding is the complete bomb 💣! What an amazing artist. She is art personified. Such complete abandonment. I just love her. Great performance! ❤️
When I was young I had the suns share of talent - sport, art, music, poetry. I can say without false ego that I walked the earth a god with a small case “g”. Long before Aldous walked i thundered in the neighbourhoods of her home town ... a hoary beast devouring wishes like cocoons consume caterpillar dreams of flight. I squandered it all on empty thrills and cheap moments filled with stolen Kama sutra chapters whose burnt edges stained the beds of ten thousand wet dreams... I am old now ... and bereft of all but the final gift ... to recognise great music and to enjoy its sweet nectar on the bough. Listening to this music transports me to the very horizons of hope once more ... every note she sings is a story I fly on like a hidden seed trapped in the wings of the bar tailed godwit beating west for her home in the land of the long white clouds. There is light in this gift. It is fire. I am it’s fuel and a fool ... There is no escaping my impotent love for this talent ... the lust is viciously rhetorical ... but it’s kiss is soulgasmic Aldous Harding ... thank all that is wholly for your courageous floetry. Arohanui
She's a hell of a performer and artist. I just bought her albums, she's so enigmatic and I'm quite captivated by her music. Kind of like an alien life form who saw some Kate Bush videos in their surveillance of Earth, threw in a few splashes of Thom Yorke, Beth Gibbons, but then said, "Eff it, I'm just going to do my own version of music for these humans." Amazing.
Those are very conservative people, who either like top 40 music, or don't like music at all (or are just trolling). Forget about them, and think about how lucky we are to have Aldous and her music in our lives.
This kexp session has it all. A delicate performance from a niche underrated artist. An overenthusiastic, nervous host. Invisible familious aka Jarred. And a musician absolutely losing their god damn mind.
Wish there was a love button! She is so immersed in her performance and I totally understand that's where the facial expressions come from. Just listen to the voice and you can see why. Don't give interviewer hard time about jumping up and down. I'm sure I'd be the same! Interesting questions.
enjoy Aldous’ living her songs and the interviewer his nervousness but utter admiration and love , he gets his words out as does she, that isn’t a problem, they are both being true, we all project ourselves into his place, I would hope I wouldn’t cover my nervousness and love with some phony professionalism, would you? And do you do that in your life?
This women is incredible. I'm not being sexist but I don't actually listen to female artists. I love Kate bush and bjork. But it's been along time since I've loved a female artist like this. Beautiful.
Wow. The whole show is great and exciting. The music is so talented and the "interview" was so weird and funny. Kudos to the interviewer for quickly adapting to her way of thinking and talking.
I love how intensely she squints at the interviewer every time he asks a question. (She really doesn't do anything half-heartedly does she - even listening?) Helps explain why he's so annoyingly nervous.
While watching this classic performance for well-over the 200th time since the published video, it’s dawned what is slightly jarring, enticing, and unique about Harding’s live sets. It’s the physicality and body language expressed when singing appears to be of a contrasting genre. It’s great, and is oddly engaging as a viewer in a similar manner to which the human eye picks up on ‘rule of thirds’ in visual compositions.
Yes host looked nervous but sounded good (has a great voice for radio) - as for Aldous - she played Jules Holland on UK TV - one song - fantastic - stole the show - warm wishes to her.
I don't have words. I'm a grandmother but if this girl walked into the room I would just cry, she moves me so much.
Isn't she amazing❤
Knowing that this woman exists makes me feel better.
after listening to Aldous for the past 4 weeks to my surprise i dont need psychedelics anymore, i just put on a good set of headphones turn up the volume and '' die of astonishment'' everytime! i havent bought music in 40+ yrs but with my savings i feel obliged to buy all her albums and i would encourage everyone else to the same, this young lady deserves and needs our support. thx. Aldous💖
First time i listened to Aldous Harding, not many musicians get me glued like this to the screen, she gave me pause to reflect, the music is truly spellbinding. Amazing stuff.
Kexp somehow manages to pull the most distilled version of these artists and performances. Not sure what the recipe is for this but almost always, the kexp version is the best one filmed and often audiologically produced as well. The muse must smile upon and dwell somewhere within that operation.
Well said . And yes to those things .
Beautifully said!
Agree.
The engineer is great
Is kinda cute how Larry is soooo excited.
Love everything about this. Her music, her expressions and her otherness.
YES!!
Her otherness - love that. Spot on
The guitar, the chords, the faces, the singing. This feels like the future, and I don't usually think that about music
She's an Artist. I am in love
First time I clicked on her music... Aldous Harding has been a headphone-friend ever since! Thank you KEXP!
Completely spellbound until imagining my man popped out, nearly brought me to tears - incredible song 🏴
I have goosebumps, so refreshing to see a talented female giving no fuks about sitting pretty and sticking to the rules. Truely rare and authentic talent!
You have it one. She is a girl with virtual balls. Be yourself and be fucking proud!
Fuking yes! Yes and thrice yes! Totally dude!
I love this woman! And her "take me as I am or not at all" kinda attitude. It's so refreshing and authentic and she's such a natural talent. Might have a slight lady crush on her as well n I don't even swing that way, but she's beautiful and stunning in so many ways. Breathtaking and magnificent performance from Aldous here, stellar! 💪💗✌💚🙏
@@keevee09 not a girl with balls, a real woman hey x
listen to Soap & Skin, she's also been at it for a while too
So vulnerable, yet so strong ... like a datura plant... beautiful, delicate, but so close to madness. threatening to change you forever
" threatening to change you forever". you piece of shit, that was beautiful.
ha...it's not a threat, it's a promise. ;)
I was the Carlos Castinada of my high school back in the 70s. I told others where to find and how to use Datura. Carlos' account of the herb was so accurate. If it like spirit liked you, you saw red. It liked me a lot! If the spirit didn't like you you saw black. That is: some people who take Jimson weed went temporarily blind. I do not recommend it - as you say: madness.
Dangerous hippy bollocks. Datura is an incredibly powerful hallucinogen, if you take too much it will make you perform a very realistic impression of having a psychotic episode. I know, myself and friends took it.
Alway's changed me from the first time I ever listened to auldus ☺️ her beuety is so so close to my me" no Shi,,,,t pure 🔯. Take her into your space a lott to offer"" thanks Aldous.. 😷 hope your well.
the spirit takes this women! it's like a seance
Ms. Harding is so attractive in every sense for that real humanness she expresses. The feeling is full, translated through her music that lands down hard, unfolds within, and carries me away. I LOVE this.
I am from NZ, live in Australia. So great to see incredible talent coming out of Aotearoa.
A lot of commenters are confused about the facial expressions. Listen to anyone describe Jay-Z in the studio. Making faces is common for vocalists who are aiming for a precise sound. Most tone it down for live performances. Also, most vocalists don't duplicate their studio sound when playing live. They do a casual interpretation. Note that she doesn't.
I'm not saying all vocalists do this. But if you pay attention, many do, especially when they are being very serious about making a specific sound. Which she is.
Spot on.
Agreed, a true, unique artist. One of a kind.
that's true, but usually their eyes don't roll back into their heads, haha.
i love her, though!
@@MyLovelyDeadFriends usually artists give mediocre live performances. She never fails because she summons sounds, her entire face is part of her instruments.
I have also seen that and I'm pretty sure she goes farther, into the playing something like different characters when she's performing. Sometimes she keeps the expression on while not singing and between songs. In the "Designer" performance for KEXP she's basically in character the whole time.
Where have you been all my life, Aldous Harding?
On KCRW jk. But that's where I first heard of them
new zealand
its an island
Haven't seen an artist that shows that kind of feeling when playing in a while. Puts it out there with every performance
Oh man. The music is beautiful, but the awkward DJ and weird facial expressions make it 100% better.
you're so right :)
hahahaha. Yes!
He's sweet, loves her music, and obviously wants to connect, but yeah, awkward.
refreshing
Agreed
To quote Mark Hollis "I get on great with silence. I don't have a problem with it. If you're going to break into it, try to have a reason for doing it.". He was a genius, and so is Aldous Harding.
Imagining My Man, such a sweet jam.
islandgroovies Album version's slightly ruined by the child screams though
Oh I like them....
Im alive because of how she says "Babe".
Wow, it is always a joy to listen to and watch Aldous perform.
half of the joy watching this are her facial expressions while she sings
I wasn't too sure about her new album upon first or second listen. I absolutely love it now. It's one of those that really grow on you. Such an exciting new talent.
Charles Knowlton I'm feeling the same exact thing now. It was just a sudden resurgence!
i love several things by her but album seemed kinda generic in ways.
If you hear one of her songs and are not sure if you like it or not, watch her perform it and witness the feeling and you cant help but love everything about it. It mesmerizing and infectious. An amazing artist.
@@ianhumphry1 well, thats been the case with everything so far. i'll have to see if the songs i didn't care for have videos.
Aldous is a talent like no other.
Her performance of Horizon is one of most incredible things I’ve ever experienced.
Same. I listen to it before my monthly performance reviews at work. Gets me psyched up.
There is something aggressive about her facial expressions,yet her voice sounds so emotionally raw and vulnerable. It's a jarring juxtaposition. It's beautiful music regardless.
I think her facial expressions help create her vocal. I don't think it'd be the same, otherwise. She's so natural.
Horizon....wow...what a performance..totally blows me away every time
Absolutely captivating..she is truly possessed by the emotions coursing through her. Wow!
Absolutely adore this lady! Beautiful, talented and I love her authenticity and her "take me as I am or not at all" kinda attitude. Stunning in so many ways 💪💗✌💚
I remembers me of singers when they were just doing their thing and not worry so much about what they looked like, she's all into what she's doing and we can hear that too.
Holy shitballs. That first song was spectacular.
Aldous is a a lyrical genius, her latest album "warm Chris " is nothing short of amazing
Presenter seems very intimidated by her intensity. Don't blame him really.
or maybe he's in LOVE!!!
Or maybe he's just SUPER awkward!
He took 12 hits of acid about 45 minutes before this interview
I guess he's her biggest fan, scared to ask a stupid question or something.
I would trade with him any day of the week though and be equally intimidated.
@@JohnHondo11997 so he's on tHE WAY UP
I've never heard anyone with this number of different voices they draw on. Every phoneme seems hand-sculpted - how much breath, how much resonance, where's the attack, the sustain... but across 20? different "characters"? I always thought you had to pick one when you started out but here's someone moving between them and it's truly beyond words.
wow...she is so beautiful..I think any feelings of uncomfortable within myself has made me realize how caught up we all are in how we will be perceived so we hold ourselves in; I am so glad that she doesn't. What an inspiring soul.
This is my favorite live recording of Aldous.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful, weird, creepy, and insanely talented - could she be any more awesome?
I’ll tell ya, man, wow, Aldous Harding is the complete bomb 💣! What an amazing artist. She is art personified. Such complete abandonment. I just love her. Great performance! ❤️
When I was young I had the suns share of talent - sport, art, music, poetry. I can say without false ego that I walked the earth a god with a small case “g”. Long before Aldous walked i thundered in the neighbourhoods of her home town ... a hoary beast devouring wishes like cocoons consume caterpillar dreams of flight.
I squandered it all on empty thrills and cheap moments filled with stolen Kama sutra chapters whose burnt edges stained the beds of ten thousand wet dreams...
I am old now ... and bereft of all but the final gift ... to recognise great music and to enjoy its sweet nectar on the bough.
Listening to this music transports me to the very horizons of hope once more ... every note she sings is a story I fly on like a hidden seed trapped in the wings of the bar tailed godwit beating west for her home in the land of the long white clouds.
There is light in this gift. It is fire. I am it’s fuel and a fool ...
There is no escaping my impotent love for this talent ... the lust is viciously rhetorical ... but it’s kiss is soulgasmic
Aldous Harding ... thank all that is wholly for your courageous floetry.
Arohanui
^^ top comment much love
I can believe it.
Great words,have been told to listen to this artist for ages-by whanau and friends -they weren’t wrong! Kia Ora
you're telling me with all those words - all those unnecessary words - you never made it big? no way
I'm blown away. She has such a rare talent and passion.
What an interesting, magical and talented woman.
She is not worried about us watching, just the sound.
Very Cool! She's something else entirely.
Love Aldous' music from the heart & from the Heartland of New Zealand. You rock Aldous!
Excellent song 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Très beau ..... hello from France 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
C’est vraiment bien
Hello back to you France, beautiful rhythm
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Thank You KEXP.
I don’t think you could possibly know how you’re ability to embrace that artist just meant everything!
The interviewer looks as if someone is just about to find the secret folders on his laptop.
lol
She's so ... Have no word. Love her with all my heart, all my guts
Aldous is fantastic. I'm off the chair hypnotized and born again.
WOW, and a hundred times WOW!
Absolutely wonderful!
Absolutely beautiful!
she really feels the music man. top cosmical stuff right here
So beautiful! So unique! Just amazing! Great musicians out there!!
She's a hell of a performer and artist. I just bought her albums, she's so enigmatic and I'm quite captivated by her music. Kind of like an alien life form who saw some Kate Bush videos
in their surveillance of Earth, threw in a few splashes of Thom Yorke, Beth Gibbons, but then said, "Eff it, I'm just going to do my own version of music for these humans." Amazing.
really love your art and your nature
the amount of dislikes upsets me... such a phenomenal artist
Those are very conservative people, who either like top 40 music, or don't like music at all (or are just trolling). Forget about them, and think about how lucky we are to have Aldous and her music in our lives.
@Geoff Longford Truth! 😂😂😂
The dislikers are just fearful of seeing truth in expression.....aldous is about being wholey real without fear of being judged.
She's talented but her facial expressions are pretty daft.
@@blackwingvalleylover yeah no
This kexp session has it all. A delicate performance from a niche underrated artist. An overenthusiastic, nervous host. Invisible familious aka Jarred. And a musician absolutely losing their god damn mind.
Magnifique... So beautiful...
Profoundly talented. She's tapped into something really deep and it comes through her.
God she's so good.
This is a spell bounding performance!
Wish there was a love button! She is so immersed in her performance and I totally understand that's where the facial expressions come from. Just listen to the voice and you can see why. Don't give interviewer hard time about jumping up and down. I'm sure I'd be the same! Interesting questions.
Radio host: "60% of the great music comes from Christchurch but only 8% of the people in NZ live there." Damn he does his homework!
i learned that in first grade cmon where were you
Wellington is prob better at the moment as is Auckland. Christchurch not so much and haven't seen much come out of Dunedin for a long time.
@@avpr1574 Dunedin still has it. Just not recognized. Check out Marlins Dreaming for a start
There's an otherworldly feeling going on here.
what a beautiful guitar!!
feckin superb. what a find. Happily stumbling into this : )
Saw her live last night in Glasgow, spiritual voice, was totally blown away")
enjoy Aldous’ living her songs and the interviewer his nervousness but utter admiration and love , he gets his words out as does she, that isn’t a problem, they are both being true, we all project ourselves into his place, I would hope I wouldn’t cover my nervousness and love with some phony professionalism, would you? And do you do that in your life?
This women is incredible. I'm not being sexist but I don't actually listen to female artists. I love Kate bush and bjork. But it's been along time since I've loved a female artist like this. Beautiful.
superbe , aucune reference a d autres artistes , pourtant y en aurait , elle est elle meme , beau !!!!
She's amazing isn't she?
Wow this i like,reminds me of beth gibbons and rustin man,love it🤘🤘🤘
That album is so fucking heavy... when I first got into Aldous Harding it kept coming up in my mind as a sort of a reference too.
Wow a case of less is more ... Beautiful
Real singing and music? They still make that! Transfixed and you just broke me again!
OMG, I've listened this whole thing about seven times now! Don't miss this, folkzies!
Wow. The whole show is great and exciting. The music is so talented and the "interview" was so weird and funny. Kudos to the interviewer for quickly adapting to her way of thinking and talking.
jesus wow that hit deep
2:17 that chord on the keys is so good. it's like the song in a nutshell with that beautiful open dissonant sound
That's a beautiful guitar
she is supernatural
She's utterly captivating
I love how intensely she squints at the interviewer every time he asks a question. (She really doesn't do anything half-heartedly does she - even listening?) Helps explain why he's so annoyingly nervous.
I think he's in love. As we all are...
She ...... Is ...... AMAZING.
RB/deceased&retiredfromTheScene
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thanks for the upload!
Stunning...:)
Very good
soooooooooooooo gifted
I like already
Seeing her on Tuesday
I cant get away with those faces on the bus but she can do it performing live. No justice jn this world
While watching this classic performance for well-over the 200th time since the published video, it’s dawned what is slightly jarring, enticing, and unique about Harding’s live sets.
It’s the physicality and body language expressed when singing appears to be of a contrasting genre. It’s great, and is oddly engaging as a viewer in a similar manner to which the human eye picks up on ‘rule of thirds’ in visual compositions.
Love her so much 🖤
I love this so much.
Yes host looked nervous but sounded good (has a great voice for radio) - as for Aldous - she played Jules Holland on UK TV - one song - fantastic - stole the show - warm wishes to her.
he's a good DJ.
A real force of nature, very authentic and beguiling
Very Nice!!!
She's got such an intense voice.
Bristol the other night was just incredible.