The Norwegian artist has built a huge global audience, merging folk, electronic, and pop aspects to thrilling effect. Released June 2024, her fourth studio album takes AURORA far from her home, only to return once more and find it all over again.
‘What Happened To The Heart?’ is a journey from weakness to strength, from self-destruction to self-healing. A poignant and introspective musical journey that explores the loss of spiritual connection in modern society, the healing power of vulnerability, and the call to ignite change through reuniting the heart with politics and personal growth. Working with a selection of incredible producers, ‘What Happened To The Heart?’ promises to cement AURORA as an artist like no other.
Recorded between her native Norway, Germany, London, and Los Angeles, it matches close collaborators – Magnus Skylstad, for example – to new voices, such as Ane Brun, Matias Tellez (girl in red, Maisie Peters), Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers, Chris Greatti (Yungblud, , Blink-182, Pussy Riot), Dave Hamelin (Beyonce, King Princess and Zara Larsson).
Dubbing the record her “most personal and cathartic album” to date, AURORA adds: “Though its precise function and anatomy were not clearly understood, the heart was believed to be the centre of the soul. Of intuition. Of emotion and intention. Until we decided these were qualifications of the mind. Emotion overpowered by logic. And with the world being so corrupted by money, power and selfishness you cannot help but ask yourself – what happened to the heart?”
曲目列表:
01. Aurora – Echo Of My Shadow
02. Aurora – To Be Alright
03. Aurora – Your Blood
04. Aurora – The Conflict Of The Mind
05. Aurora – Some Type Of Skin
06. Aurora – The Essence
07. Aurora – Earthly Delights
08. Aurora – When The Dark Dresses Lightly
09. Aurora – A Soul With No King
10. Aurora – Dreams
11. Aurora – My Name
12. Aurora – Do You Feel
13. Aurora – Starvation
14. Aurora – The Blade
15. Aurora – My Body Is Not Mine
16. Aurora – Invisible Wounds
17. Aurora – The Flood
18. Aurora – Hearts Intuition
19. Aurora – The Weight Of Missing
20. Aurora – Dreams
21. Aurora – Some Type Of Skin