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Aldous Harding announces new album 'Train On The Island' with enigmatic single 'One Stop'
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Aldous Harding announces new album ‘Train On The Island’ with enigmatic single ‘One Stop’
The New Zealand artist has also added a third show at London's Barbican this summer
By Max Pilley
7th March 2026
Aldous Harding. CREDIT: Kate Meakin
Aldous Harding has announced her new album ‘Train On The Island’ and shared the first single ‘One Stop’ – listen below.
READ MORE: Aldous Harding – ‘Warm Chris’ review: strange, sublime and completely unique
The New Zealand singer-songwriter will release her fifth studio record and the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Warm Chris’ on May 8 and you can pre-order your copy on CD, standard black vinyl or limited-edition blue vinyl here.
Advertisement The first single is ‘One Spot’, a stripped-back track built around a singular piano motif and Harding’s multi-tracked vocals that has a wiry and enigmatic aura.
Check out the video, directed by Michelle Henning, here:
‘Train On The Island’ has been co-produced by Harding’s long-time collaborator John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning) at Rockfield Studios in Monmouth, Wales, where they worked together on all of her previous LPs.
Aldous Harding ‘ ‘Train On The Island’ artwork
Aldous Harding – ‘Train On The Island’ tracklist:
‘I Ate The Most’
‘One Stop’
‘Train On The Island’
‘Worms’
‘Venus In The Zinnia’
‘If Lady Does It’
‘San Francisco’
‘What Am I Gonna Do?’
‘Riding That Symbol’
‘Coats’
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In January, Harding announced an extensive UK, European and North American tour for later this year and due to high demand, she has now added a third night at London’s Barbican on May 31. Tickets for that and all of the shows are available now and you can find yours here.
The tour kicks off in the Brighton Dome on May 25 and will see her play shows in Southampton, Cambridge, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, Leeds, Manchester and Birmingham as well as the trio of London shows, before heading to Europe. She arrives in the US on September 9 in Philadelphia, before the long trek comes to an end in Los Angeles on September 30. See the full list of shows here.
Harding last performed two sold-out shows at the Barbican back in 2023 while touring in support of ‘Warm Chris’. The album was pre-empted by two singles, ‘Lawn’ and ‘Fever’, and earned a four-star review from NME, who said the record was “a record defined by sparse and deliberate instrumentation”.
“It’s music that can take time to get your head around, a record that prefers to let Harding’s voice gently disorientate rather than ever let its listener settle,” it read.
Advertisement “Harding’s endless twists and turns are nothing if not engaging… if you embrace ‘Warm Chris” strangeness, you’ll be justly rewarded.”
Elsewhere, Harding recently teamed up with Sleaford Mods on their new single ‘Elitest G.O.A.T.’, which dropped in January.
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