ALDOUS HARDING - Train On The Island LP Instrumental with Buchla music easel bubbling

with Buchla music easel bubbling up between Johnny’s lines

Songs snake their way from a lo-fi home recording to something glossier made with longtime friends at Asheville's Drop of Sun studios

Borland’s familiar vocals and sense of melody hold a connection to his other songwriting

Will's even more effecting in collaboration with the spellbinding angelic delivery of Marty Slayton

He investigated the relationship between sound and light

ALDOUS HARDING - Train On The Island LP Instrumental with Buchla music easel bubblingNew Zealand based musician and songwriter Aldous Hardings fifth album, Train on the Island, arrives on May 8. The 10 track record was co produced with long time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning, Sparklehorse) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where the pair recorded Hardings previous albums Party (2017), Designer (2019) and Warm Chris (2022). Musical contributions to the new recordings come from pedal steel player Joe Harvey