207: Aldous Harding

The Trap Set with Joe Wong

Joe Wong

Joewong, Drums, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Drummers

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of three excellent albums, Aldous Harding has distinguished herself as an incredibly compelling songwriter with a singular voice. Aldous and Joe discuss: impermanence, inner voices, the significance of standing up, and achieving exceptional feats as an ordinary person.

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0:00.0	The hunt for a feeling is as genuine as having one or not having one.
0:07.0	This is Joe Wong. Welcome to the Trap Set. I want to play something for you.
0:25.6	I want to play something for you. I made it again I made it again to the Amazon.
0:57.0	I've got to erase the same as the others.
1:03.0	And I see it far cleaner than that. You're hearing You're hearing
1:19.6	By my guest Aldous Harding.
1:22.6	I first heard the New Zealand-based artist by chance while I was visiting a record store.
1:28.3	Her songs felt singular yet instantly familiar.
1:32.3	Aldous released her third album, Designer, on 4A.D. Records last week.
1:38.3	On May 12th, she'll begin a tour of Europe and the UK.
1:42.3	I spoke to her in downtown Los Angeles.
1:47.3	And rock in my hand, a living mirror.
1:53.6	The braided cover of love.
1:58.4	And now my conversation with Alda's Harding.
2:00.8	I've got my eye on you now.
2:08.1	Treasure.
2:13.5	I think my stream of consciousness is just so, you know, it just, it's too much.
2:31.6	So those, where people think I'm super uncomfortable, I'm just thinking about which bits
2:37.8	to pull out because I'm worried that if I, if the hunt for what I'm trying to, if I speak
2:47.8	the whole way through the hunt, I'm going to sound mad.
2:51.5	I have to do a lot of jump hurdles to get to the things that I think are important.
2:58.7	Do you think a lot in general?
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