''Warm Chris'' is the fourth studio album by the New Zealand indie folk singer-songwriter

Aldous Harding Hannah Sian Topp (born 1990), known professionally as Aldous Harding, is a New Zealand folk singer-songwriter, based in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Biography Harding comes from a musical family in Lyttelton, New Zealand. Her mother is folk singer ...

, released on 25 March 2022 by

4AD 4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name "Axis" (after the Hendrix album) by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records. The name was changed to 4AD a ...

. The album peaked at number-one on the New Zealand Albums chart. Its release was preceded by two singles, "Lawn" and "Fever". Two subsequent singles from ''Warm Chris'', charted on the New Zealand Hot Singles Chart, with "Tick Tock" peaking at No. 31, and "Ennui" peaking at No. 40.

Composition

Musically, ''Warm Chris'' has been described as baroque pop, "endearingly introspective"

folk-pop Folk-pop is a musical style that may be 1) contemporary folk songs with large, sweeping pop arrangements, or 2) pop songs with intimate, acoustic-based folk arrangements. Recording production values created a unblemished style that appealed to ...

, and

freak folk Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music. Charac ...

/"gentle"

psychedelic folk Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelic music, psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of contemporary folk music, folk, but adds musical el ...

Critical reception

In a review for ''

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'', Sophie Kemp gave the album a positive review, praising it as showcasing "some of Harding's best songwriting yet".

Track listing

Personnel

* Ali Chant – mixing, vocals *

– bell, composer, acoustic guitar, humming, piano, electric piano, vocals * Gavin Fitzjohn – flugelhorn, horn, baritone saxophone *

H. Hawkline Huw Evans (born 15 March 1985), also known as H. Hawkline, is a Welsh singer-songwriter and radio and television presenter based in Cardiff. He also lived and worked in Los Angeles for several years. He performs in both English and Welsh languag ...

– banjo, bass, design, Fender Rhodes, guitar, electric guitar, layout, Hammond organ, photography, vocals * Hopey Parish – vocals * Jason Mitchell – mastering * Jason Williamson – vocals * Joe Jones – engineer *

John Parish John Parish (born 11 April 1959) is an English musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. Parish is best known for his work with singer-songwriter PJ Harvey. He has also worked with such artists as Eels, Aldous Harding, Tracy Chapm ...

– bass, drums, Fender Rhodes, electric guitar, humming, keyboards, mixing, Hammond organ, percussion, producer, shaker, slide guitar, tambourine, vocals *

Seb Rochford Sebastian Rochford is a British drummer and composer. He has recorded and released music as leader of the British band Polar Bear, as Kutcha Butcha and as part of numerous collaborations. Early life Rochford was born in Aberdeen and has a large ...

– drums * Steve Prescott – assistant photographer

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

External links

* 2022 albums Aldous Harding albums 4AD albums Albums produced by John Parish {{folk-album-stub