Train on the Island

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Label: 4AD
Release Date: 8th May

Here Rob goes with the 'I've heard this already and it's the greatest thing ever'... am I that predictable? Been positively frothing for new Aldous Harding, an artist who over 5 albums is establishing themselves as one of the best art pop auteurs. Such a lucid, soft and gently free-flowing to the music, Aldous lyrics are equal parts vivid, personal and abstract. I'm already playing the daylights out of this one. 

On 8th May 2026, Aldous Harding will release her fifth studio album, Train On The Island.

The 10-track Train On The Island was co-produced by long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where the pair recorded the New Zealander’s previous bodies of work, Party (2017), Designer (2019) and Warm Chris (2022). Joining Harding and Parish on Train On The Island were pedal steel player Joe Harvey-Whyte, harpist Mali Llywelyn, synth artist Thomas Poli, drummer Sebastian Rochford (Polar Bear) and Huw Evans (H. Hawkline) on bass, vocals, acoustic/electric guitar and organ.