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Chasing rainbows with Kiwi cult star Aldous Harding and her many voices

Andrew Stafford, Sydney Morning Herald, the, 25 April 2019

THE THIRD ALBUM by Aldous Harding, New Zealand's woman of a thousand voices, is called Designer. Its sleeve represents the title vertically – white on matt black, in a form that immediately recalls the pulsar signal on Joy Division's classic 1979 debut Unknown Pleasures. Like Joy Division, Harding's name is missing.

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