![]() It’s important to be strong in yourself.” Then other people will make your life a good life as well. You are the only one you need to survive. You have to find the conqueror in yourself to land on your own feet. That person is still trying to find the conqueror in someone else. It’s just a person who hasn’t realized that yet. Because you need to work a bit harder to survive as well…You have to find the conqueror in yourself at first, I think. But if you’re weak, you’re also very strong. “I know that I’m very sensitive,” she admits. Nowhere is that idea of overflowing visceral content more evident than her new single “Conqueror,” where, against a percussive wave, she sings of someone longing to be rescued from “Broken mornings/broken nights/broken days in between.” Written for fun one night in the studio with her bandmates (who she refers to as her “second family”) AURORA calls the anthem a personal reminder-in addition to being one of the most fun songs in her catalogue to perform live. So I hope that the emotions in my songs are clear enough that you don’t need to know what the words mean.” But the most important thing is the emotion in the song, of course. ![]() “I always strive to be better and I always feel like everything I’m making can be better if I had more time. “When I was very young, younger than now, I could listen to songs by Cohen and Bob Dylan, not even knowing the English language yet, and still kind of understand what the song was about, and have a sense of emotion from the song without knowing the words,” AURORA reveals. Coupled with an anthemic swell of synths and AURORA’s triumphant vocal, “Running With the Wolves” makes tapping into one’s lupine side seem not only plausible but downright irresistible. A girl makes peace with her murderer and the inherent vulnerability of life in the haunting piano ballad “Murder Song (5,4,3,2,1).” A runaway fades away into the wonder of nature over the course of “Runaway,” her escape marked with harpsichord, live percussion, and an undeniable sense of wonder. Now nineteen and on the cusp of releasing her debut full-length, All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, AURORA’s fantasies have only grown, inhabiting every corner of her music. Or even that her first brush with making music was discovering a toy piano, and she managed to keep her hobby a secret from her parents until well into her teen years. Visit her official website .įeatured Image by John / Flickr / CC BY-2.After hearing her lithe, fairytale-reminiscent songs, perhaps it wouldn’t surprise you to learn that AURORA (born Aurora Aksnes) hails from a Norwegian city with a name that translates to “Fjord of Lights.” Or that when she was six, the future singer/songwriter was disciplined for convincing classmates that their school was overrun with talking mice.It brought her into the spotlight of millions of fans almost overnight. In March 2015, Aurora received a shout-out by pop sensation Katy Perry who tweeted that Aurora’s song Runaway made her heart aflutter.She has a dedicated fan base and refers to them as ‘Warriors and Weirdos’.Aurora is a self-confessed fan of the Harry Potter and Star Wars series. Among her hobbies are reading and painting.She considers Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan as having a major influence on her style of music.Source – London Evening Standard, The 405, Clash, Paste, Popular, The Guardian, Grazia, Rolling Stone Aurora Aksnes performing at Puls Open Air in June 2016 (pitpony.photography / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 3.0) Aurora Aksnes Facts Place To Perform – Norway, Iceland, England.Places To Shop – Beyond Retro in London, Twisted in Bergen. ![]() Band – Wardruna, Gojira, Mastodon, Refused.
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