Aldous Harding - The Barrel (Live on KEXP)

[@asteriskman]

The world would be a better place if more people knew this music.

[@AlastairEvans-gx2rl]

Without a doubt.

[@patriciasmithwick4431]

Beyond amazing live performance - forever an inspiration. Thank you for showcasing your talent and hard work. ❤

[@etiennebouchard993]

The music is so anchored in the present. It reveals a lot of focus from Aldous harding. It seems like there is nothing more important than the music for her when she plays. It breaths and it flows so perfectly.

[@johnlittle3430]

But also, it's intrinsically linked to obscure, esoteric British folk from 50 years ago. Which is important.

[@davidmiguelbrevik-ribeiro8934]

Thank you New Zealand for making part of me with this song.

[@BreakfastIsImportant]

man this song fuggin slaps so subtly

[@BreakfastIsImportant]

just wanted to add, doesn't slap as hard with no 10k stare pilgrims, but slaps nonetheless

[@johnentwistle952]

holy shit, this is the best day of my life.

[@LibraLeo325]

Oh my god! I’ve been obsessed with this song.

[@Deedolphin]

What a beautiful pure voice she has...She could do everything just by singing...Aldous my singer number one!

[@johnseward9121]

The Unique Aldous..so captivating...she is a treasure!

[@augopen]

Tre sjah

[@dumdumbox]

@@augopenthat’s exactly the right spelling

[@Jorlivia]

Song of the year../.every year from now on

[@yuliyamoscg]

she is sooooo cooooooool !

[@PINGALA1000]

I don't know how this appeared in my life but I'm stunned by it. It reminds me of a Kurt Seligmann sculpture 'will 'o the wisp' from 1957 that I've never really dealt with, or something by Miro "...so begins the braiding", it made me cry.

[@gourddrawing]

Respect to her very talented band. Her music seems like it would be difficult to play live. Nuances galore. It's their understated performance that lifts this song to the next level. I'm so glad their is an avenue for massively talented people that take their own path. My ears and soul crave this woman's music. Beautiful! 💓

[@alejandromacias7609]

I can only imagine how wonderful it is to be simply able to enjoy being alive like Aldous Huxley when she's playing live.

[@themysticmuse1111]

Take care of you Aldous. The world needs you, something severe. ❤ THANK YOU ❤ -A ginormous, deeply indebted, fan. ❤

[@flowerbuttercupb4]

cocteautwinned Aldous needs to hear that...She's so raw and true to all the personalites within her that needs a way to be expressesd in fun way:))) i know i let my different personalities come out to play and We All Get Along..lol I really do appreciate Aldous , she's Fun:)))

[@themysticmuse1111]

@@flowerbuttercupb4 wow, a year later I see your comment...😬🙄 Yes. She is. She's wonderful.😁 Have you seen/ heard LAWN? Soooooo good.🙏✨

[@themysticmuse1111]

@@flowerbuttercupb4 as long as everyone plays nice in the sandbox, eh? 😁🤪

[@KarinKnospe-m3f]

you are one of the best!!!! wonderful voice

[@toulad5317]

Beautiful. My kind of music. Must look for more 💖💖💖

[@fac131]

Props to Kevin Suggs. The mix is beautiful!

[@goozerboozer8543]

Really good mix, although I think the snare could sound a bit more punchy.

[@KamaTanha]

His mixes are always impeccable.

[@thirdpigeon2676]

Sounds better than on the album

[@akoppen]

Literally discovered this song minutes ago, what a great song

[@friselectif]

Omg how beautiful

[@uierzalfmj]

I am lost for words this is hauntingly beautiful

[@scottmeyers1903]

So wonderful just great musicians playing beautiful music 👍❤

[@augopen]

Listening to this several times a day. Interestingly not a single brave soul took a crack at this on LyricGenius😄

[@Trollificusv2]

When I discovered (heh "discovered". right.) her, I listened to this on loop for hours and hours. I'd take a break to discover the other songs, but kept coming back to this, kept finding more in it. Kept finding more ways Aldous can be beautiful, homely, inbtimate, remote, joyous, depressed...but back to beautiful again. Perhaps it's true that we see what we seek...

[@accuser_of_the_brethren7816]

@@Trollificusv2 i was lucky enough to find her about 2 weeks ago and it began a quiet, awkward obsession. I fixate on certain artists for awhile and then go back and rediscover them after a year or so. However, her cryptic, enticing lyrics that are more subjective and personal to anything I've heard in the past couple years I can't seem to stop going from her npr set (Herizon-when she sings the verse about breaking her neck dancing on the edge of the world had me eyes welling with tears due to the sheer conviction in her delivery of the line) back to Designer from this set then back to the video for peaches and how entranced I am watching her wobble dance and then genuinely creeping me out from the angle of the blue mask she wears while wobbling the same way. I can't explain why she's got me but she does. It's as if she's a different person each song but also each venue she performs each song with different yet meaningful ways completely original from the past performances. Take "Blend" for instance and it's lyrical context set apart from her video for the same song and the vast ocean that sets both performances apart. The video is basically a mockery of what she feels the man she's singing to wants in a woman and conveys the disdain she has for it while still proving she can be utterly breathtaking and sexy although she's gyrating awkwardly on purpose. I mean..the brilliance of it just...I can't even explain how much of a true performance artist she is even though she doesn't like doing it she says. How do you feel and interpret her better known songs like this one or others?

[@bougiebum9138]

Listen to a different recording. She doesn't always mumble like this

[@jasonedmonds4514]

straight up with the sickest band

[@МалинуаРизеншнауцер-Курц]

Обожаю Ее Музыку!Ну а клавишница - просто мечта для этого жанра! Новозеландские музыканты лучшие в мире!

[@aaroncummins2752]

A lovely thing going on,, .

[@bbens999]

She is amazing

[@LuigiSimpatico]

Amazing

[@sylvainfouillaud8678]

Mais qu'est qu'il fait du bien ce morceau!!! Merciiiiiiiii....

[@jimmybond6223]

guitar hits very well in this version, great live vox by Aldous of course

[@rolldeepNASA]

great song - i love it!

[@R.V.I.]

I look forward for her next appearance on KEXP

[@Dreamskater100]

Sublime. Classic. & Video.

[@pen2199]

this is just fkn brill, wowa what tune

[@tsopuaifa]

100% enigmatic.

[@cprk1]

Incredible!

[@AlastairEvans-gx2rl]

Exquisite

[@KarinKnospe-m3f]

Brilliant

[@beachhobbies]

Brilliant!

[@suparickyprime]

wow! amazing

[@juanbernales447]

¡Fantástica! ¡Gracias Aldous y músicos!

[@drewski363]

Wonderful stuff. I love it.

[@Trollificusv2]

Confused, bewildered, mesmerized; entranced, bamboozled, thoroughly confused...this woman is a marvel, and I can't stop listening to this song in particular, though I like all her others. This one is perfect from beginning to end. Also, last observation. Really like the keyboardist, esp. attitude about having a badly re-set nose and saying "F it, fam. This is what I look like now.", while rich girls get surgery on perfectly fine noses so they can look more like Taylor Swift. Beyond cool. She also sings funny, and perfectly.

[@decodynamo]

Perfection

[@emaama3401]

que bajito suena la corista-pianista, me encanta el arreglo de su voz.. tremenda banda, solo quiero ser uno de llos..

[@alancameron-duff2198]

Brilliant. Vashti Bunyan on Ketamine. With a funky band.....Love it!

[@rerenaissance7487]

Aldous' band always look like somebody's been playing with an AI app. "Aldous Harding, but as a male bass player". Also, love the way Aldous looks right down the barrel (ha!) of the camera and smirks into your soul.

[@brian5462]

queen

[@diesellady]

Love

[@JR-wd6ys]

This song has wormed its way into my brain. And I am glad it did.

[@user-pq9yg2pq6h]

Schön.

[@seanfindley]

i love aldous

[@GusONeill-w1u]

Song lyrics - “It’s already dead” Aldous’ facial expression - 😊

[@Trollificusv2]

In addition to all the wonderful mismatched components of AH's presentation there's the eyes-rolling-back-in-her-head trick, and the fact that she sings in the faint accent of no known nation AND ALSO, thanks to the brave "Blend" video, we know she has a butt that ass models would kill for, which is the most unlikely thing EVER and kinda keeps her from being art-cliched. People like wild, creative and eccentric, but don't know what to do when those traits are _real_ , and not just "art person approved" affectations. I'm so glad she exists, the world is more amazing than it was before.

[@anodyne57]

For me, the closest familiar sound I can make out is an Iberian Spanish accent.

[@aaroncummins2752]

So pure 💛💙🌈

[@user-pz4um9hi1j]

The bass on this track really brings it together, without it, the song sounds really bare.

[@chrismathewsjr]

damn this must be why they call you the next robert christgau

[@DnN5481]

this is so true! as soon as I heard this song I had to bust out the bass and learn it.

[@greyleaf]

@@chrismathewsjr lmfao

[@dameinoferrall2400]

They look like a band from a Scooby-Doo episode come to life. Maybe partly because the drummer could totally pass for Shaggy.

[@vicious-w7m]

He looks more like this guy I know.

[@aaroncummins2752]

Maybe y Damian is Scooby the drummer" ? You do not dream with the poet" ...

[@keenb641]

It's cool to see the guy from that 70s show is now a drummer

[@ejdevo]

That’s the best comment ever

[@iwashere368]

🖤

[@michaelc.pearson4495]

H hawkline playing bass

[@patmustard8093]

Guitarist is a guy called Harry who played in a band called Kid Wave, also on Heavenly.

[@jaredwhite571]

Magic happens

[@themysticmuse1111]

❤❤❤

[@allysonlincoln8175]

I love your name that's awesome I'm a cocteau twins freak as well not surprised that you like this song

[@dM-ij1we]

Have I seen the bassist with Cate Le Bon? Or is it because he looks like Tim Presley? I am confused. Love the performance though.

[@billbowie8772]

Who is the woman playing keys/organ? Her backing vocal in the last part of the song is exactly like the recorded version. Her voice goes way up and sounds so child like. Little nuances like that are part of what makes this so special to me.

[@bartonone2005]

I agree and I've heard vocals like this before. Brian Eno sometimes employed such off kilter vocals on his pop albums from the 70s. The lyrics are in the same vein also. They go well together sonically and occasionally one can glean a meaning from them. Whether it's intentional or not, I feel these are nods to Eno's early work before he became known for ambient music.

[@rukeyser]

I got here via re-watching DARE ME now that it’s on Netflix. The song-czar for the show is excellent, and Aldous’s HORIZON closes one episode. Needless to say to those of you who know her work, “Barrell” is an upbeat, feel good, life is fine kind of tune ;-)

[@phobos2k2]

Where's my quaker hat?

[@user-pz4um9hi1j]

I know!!!!!! I want to make one for myself NGL.🤣

[@JasonAllen]

Id love for her and Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas, Stereolab) to make some music together.

[@garethmacdonald8106]

Really shows the ferret to the egg.

[@anodyne57]

I'm in thrall.

[@ihavesoul4real]

Click for the song, stay for the drunmers blouse.

[@quhp]

Anyone with knowledge of Nylons know the brand of guitar Aldous is playing?

[@seanfindley]

hoping someone knows. i'm in the market for a decent one

[@bobrossantichrisst]

Look like the bob ross mcdude 1901

[@kunglee2992]

Alford Harding acoustic

[@h-voltage]

That look in her eyes, i'm not convinced she's from earth

[@mgrimault]

That télé sound

[@lejoe48]

Major leagues.

[@johnlittle7473]

Hear me the fuck out: Nick Drake reincarnated.

[@TRUEiMPROrecords]

"It is already dead"

[@TheMonolake]

Why WHY..is this 4 yrs Old Whats goin on?

[@nathanbowser609]

Hey ferret, come here. I got something to show you. If you think peaches are cool.Check this shit out, they’re called eggs. It’s gonna be the next big thing.

[@shoehat]

look at all the peaches

[@R0n8urgundy]

Reminds me of Nick Drake

[@dameinoferrall2400]

true

[@horse69outside]

Nick Nolte

[@mikekaufmann5311]

This upsets me because it makes a lot of the other music I like seem not all that great in comparison.

[@TheMonolake]

How fkin sad ...wierd that this is not being recognized

[@losangulos]

No dancing?

[@Mr.Jacksoneros]

This is the same drummer from Baxter Dury 😂

[@Allen1029]

Boomers

[@BarronVonSchnoot]

I keep trying, but her music just seems to lack genuine emotions. Talented, pleasant, smooth, and meaningless.

[@eccremocarpusscaber5159]

BarronVonSchnoot gosh, I feel exactly the opposite.

[@BarronVonSchnoot]

Eccremocarpus scaber After writing this comment, I came across the an interview “stepping into the rare acoustic world of Aldous Harding” that can be found on KZbin. It gave me a new found appreciation for Aldous Harding. She describes her music, live show, and persona as performance art and is concerned that people might take her as authentic. She also separates her public persona from her personality as a means of self-preservation.

[@Trollificusv2]

@@BarronVonSchnoot The visual presentation, even without the excellent production values of her videos, is amazing; and she has a near-magical poetic gift of creating nonsensical truth and gibberish wisdom! Nonsense that sounds like it might be profound, profundities that come across as random craziness. However, the section/verse "When you have child So begins the braiding and in that braid you stay" Describing how your life intertwines with a childs' life as "braiding" is awesome, but the sense that it happens immediately, forever, at birth, is well-conveyed in just three lines. That's some poetic coherence up in there. Of ferrets, doves and peaches I would speak with less confidence.

[@vincentronet7495]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@cupeater]

look at all the peaches