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Track: Zoo Eyes
Artist: Aldous Harding
Album: Designer

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Name: Aldous Harding
Spotify Genres: ambient folk
Followers: 245,418
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Singer/songwriter Aldous Harding first drew praise for the gothic folk and stark emotionality of her 2015 debut that brought about comparisons to both Kate Bush and Scott Walker. She grew up as Hannah Harding in the town of Lyttelton near Christchurch in New Zealand to musician parents. Her mother was folk singer [a=Lorina Harding], and it was on her NZ Folk album of the year award-winning record Clean Break that the 13-year-old Harding made her recording debut. Despite this early foray into the music business, the young Harding had no interest in pursuing a career as a musician, believing it to be a precarious existence. Just a couple of years later, she began to let go of her dreams of becoming a vet when she started singing and writing songs alongside friend and fellow musician Nadia Reid. By 2008 she was performing backup vocals for the travelling string band the Eastern, and Harding got an early break when she was spotted busking by Anika Moa, who on the back of that performance invited the young musician to open for her at her show that same night. In 2012 Harding changed her forename to Aldous and asked Marlon Williams and Ben Edwards to co-produce what would become her debut record. The self-titled release garnered much critical acclaim, and Harding toured the album extensively. For her follow-up, she signed to British independent label 4AD, and enlisted the help of John Parish (Sparklehorse, PJ Harvey) to co-produce the record. Her sophomore album Party was released in 2017, and was preceded by the singles "Horizon" and "Imagining My Man."

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Release: Aldous Harding - Designer
Year: 2019
Genres: Rock, Pop, Folk, World, & Country
Styles: Art Rock, Folk, Alternative Rock

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LYRICS

Why, what am I doing in Dubai?
In the prime of my life
Do you love me?
Cried all the way through
Zoo eyes, zoo eyes, zoo eyes
Zoo eyes
Ask for me and you shall receive
Opulent fair
All rain is beads
That drain to where the mother shell meets the sea

I drove my inner child to a show
It talked all the way home
And the nectar
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Zoo eyes
Ask for me and you shall receive
Opulent fair, all sound is bees
That drift to where the covered tree has no leaves

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Nice to have remembered, well, a pin
A colourful bride
They are magnificent
Do you love me?
Again
Again in the morning
In the light, a playing fight
And the nectar
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Zoo eyes, zoo eyes, zoo eyes

Zoo eyes
Ask for me and you shall receive
Opulent fair, all fear is green
It sits above the classroom of your dreams
Zoo eyes
Ask for me and you shall receive
Opulent fair, all love is fleece
It leaves a cold lamb laughing in the breeze

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It's the greatest show on Earth you shall receive
What am I doing in Dubai?