Tyler the creator album covers12/28/2022 ![]() ![]() UK trio Bad Boy Chiller Crew's antics always seem to come up before their actual music does (they first gained attention for videos that The Guardian's Damien Morris referred to as "a head-on collision between Jackass and People Just Do Nothing," to give you an idea), but with Disrespectful, they've written an album that's undeniable even if you don't know anything else about them. While Warm Chris doesn't grab you by the lapels the way Designer did, it's an album whose many charms creep up on you and before you realize, you're totally under her spell once again. ![]() This is new territory for everyone it seems. Sleaford Mods' Jason Williams turns up on the Nico-esque closing track, "Leathery Whip," not to unleash his usual spiel but to offer tender backing vocals. "Cut it up, put it in my hand," she sings on the bright, airy opener "Ennui." "You’ve become my joy you understand." On "Fever," she sings "I had stars coming all around me / And you let me in where a mother’d invested." Despite the new vocal stylings, Aldous made the album with her now regular troupe of collaborators, including producer John Parish, and multi instrumentalist H. Whoever is the subject of these songs also appears to be head-over-heels in love. It's more pastoral, almost faery folk at times, more subtle. Warm Chris is an equally beguiling record, just different. She sounds smaller, somehow more delicate, almost like a different person than the one who made 2019's wonderful Designer. There are new voices heard on Aldous Harding's Warm Chris, her fourth album and third for 4AD, all eminating from her. ![]()
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