It’s been almost four years since Aldous Harding’s last album, Warm Chris, but early last year, she made a guest appearance on one of the best songs of 2025, Perfume Genius’ ‘No Front Teeth’. Today, the singer-songwriter is back with an equally intriguing collaboration, appearing on Sleaford Mods’ latest single ‘Elitest G.O.A.T.’. The track is taken from The Demise of Planet X, which arrives this Friday (January 16). Check it out below.
“When we did the bare bones of Elitest G.O.A.T. it unnerved me because it almost sounded like a small band because for the bassline we really took influence from progressive music like David Bowie’s Low,“, the group’s Jess Williamson explained. “But Andrew always comes up with something really good and tasteful, and his beat ticking away pulls it back into Sleaford Mods. As I put the vocal on, I knew it was a goer. We’ve created something a bit different, and Aldous Harding really helped with that. She is brilliant on this track, and it is one of my favourites on the album. It’s such a good song.”
“We asked Aldous if she’d be up for doing the business for us, and luckily, she was over here recording,” Williamson added. “So, she joined us in the studio in Bristol. That day at Invada Studios was very special. I felt like we’d really accomplished something.”
‘Elitest G.O.A.T.’ comes with an accompanying video directed by John Minton. “We wanted a video that reflected the banal energy of people posturing in the face of other people’s pain and misery,” Williamson commenmted. “Not everyone is guilty of this, obviously, but recently there’s been a wave of souvenir-shop activism set against the backdrop of our collectively failing societies. I was drawn to the ideas in Mark Fisher’s Exiting the Vampire Castle, particularly its critique of an imploding Left, alongside imagery of time-warped nothingness and collective conformity. John captures this perfectly: an odd slab of cold, passionless pictures.”
