Nothing professional here, just some thoughts about music I like
I’ve always been drawn to songwriters whose lyrics are too smart for me. I enjoy feeling like I’m in the hands of an artist whose work has layers that are beyond my grasp. Aldous Harding’s lyrics are often mistaken for absurdism. This was my take at least, when I first heard her 2019 breakthrough track…
Like I said, there’s some great music coming out of New Zealand lately. But last week’s The Beths don’t have much in common with this week’s Aldous Harding. To the same degree the former are loud and upbeat, the latter is restrained and maxes out at what I’d call barely midtempo. Where the former present…