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Following 2018's Step 1: Infections of a Different Kind by less than a year, Step 2: A Different Kind of Human finds Norwegian singer/fantasist Aurora Aksnes still investigating humanity through a wide-angle lens. Ecological as well as social themes permeate the record, as does her impulse to reach out to the alienated. These ideas are all represented, either literally or symbolically, on "Dance on the Moon." It stars the distinctively pixie-voiced AURORA as an angel. After opening with spare piano, shimmering background atmosphere, and the singer's dreams for a better future ("I hope love will come to us again"), it evolves into a spacy, soaring dance-pop with tight, layered vocal harmonies and a scat-like countermelody. Like much of the record, it's lush, warm, and welcoming, despite the presence of icy timbres, including frequent vocal processing. This is also true of the encouraging, more reflective "Daydreamer" ("I know I'm just a girl/but can I change lives?....I think I can"). AURORA's albums have been both empathic and fanciful from the beginning, but here, via a rousing melody on shimmering, percussive choruses, she issues a call to action: "We become nighttime dreamers, street walkers, small talkers/When we should be daydreamers, and moon walkers, and dream talkers." A few of the album's darker entries are also urgent; the austere "The Seed" warns "You cannot eat money, oh no," and the heavily stylized "Apple Tree" and "Hunger" incorporate hip-hop and Eastern music influences on cautionary, if rhythmically animated tracks. A Different Kind of Human is most compelling when AURORA's vocal performances are allowed room to breathe, as on the captivating title song. While processed vocal harmonies are among the track's otherworldly sounds, the main vocal line is largely exposed and undistorted, a juxtaposition that becomes more profound alongside lyrics like "We have come here for you/And we're coming in peace....This world you live in is not a place for someone like you/Come on let us take you home." It's an album that sticks, both for its theatrical melodies and uncommon benevolence.
© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
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Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Magnus Skylstad, Composer, Producer - Kobalt Music Pub America Inc, MusicPublisher - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - Odd Martin Skaalnes, Composer - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO KMR MUSIC ROYALTIES II SCSP, MusicPublisher - ULTRA TUNES OBO ULTRA MUSIC PUBLISHING EUROPE, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO ROLF BUDDE MUSIKVERLAG GMBH, MusicPublisher - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO NOTTING HILL MUSIC LONDON, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Tobias Gad, Composer - Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Magnus Skylstad, Producer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - MyRiot, Producer - David Dahlquist, Composer - Askjell Solstrand, Producer - Kill Dave, Producer - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO GADFLY SONGS, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO ONE77 SONGS, MusicPublisher - ATLAS MUSIC GROUP OBO DAHLQUIST PRODUCTIONS, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Guy Sigsworth, Composer - Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - WARP MUSIC LIMITED, MusicPublisher - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUBLISHING GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUBLISHING GMBH, MusicPublisher - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO 120 MUSIC PUBLISHING, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Fiona Bevan, Composer - Magnus Skylstad, Producer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - CONCORD MUSIC GROUP, INC. DBA CONCORD SOUNDS, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Roy Kerr, Composer - Timothy Bran, Composer - Magnus Skylstad, Producer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO KOBALT MUSIC SERVICES LTD KMS, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Magnus Skylstad, Composer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - ULTRA TUNES OBO ULTRA MUSIC PUBLISHING EUROPE, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DLJ SONGS LLC OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUBLISHING GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - Askjell Solstrand, Producer - WC MUSIC CORP OBO WARNER/CHAPPELL NORWAY A/S, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Magnus Skylstad, Composer, Producer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - Odd Martin Skaalnes, Composer - KOBALT MUSIC PUB AMERICA I OBO KMR MUSIC ROYALTIES II SCSP, MusicPublisher - ULTRA TUNES OBO ULTRA MUSIC PUBLISHING EUROPE, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Michelle Leonard, Composer - Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Copyright Control, MusicPublisher - Robin Schmidt, MasteringEngineer - Nico Rebscher, Composer - BMG PLATINUM SONGS OBO BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT GMBH (GE, MusicPublisher - N C B SCANDINAVIA, MusicPublisher - Magnus Skylstad, Mixer, Engineer - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - Morgane Mayollet, RecordingSecondEngineer - Daniel Cayotte, Engineer - BMG SILVER SONGS OBO BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Aurora, Producer, MainArtist - Aurora Aksnes, Composer - Askjell Solstrand, Composer, Producer - WC MUSIC CORP OBO WARNER/CHAPPELL NORWAY A/S, MusicPublisher - DOWNTOWN DMP SONGS OBO BUDDE MUSIC PUB GMBH, MusicPublisher
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
Album review
Following 2018's Step 1: Infections of a Different Kind by less than a year, Step 2: A Different Kind of Human finds Norwegian singer/fantasist Aurora Aksnes still investigating humanity through a wide-angle lens. Ecological as well as social themes permeate the record, as does her impulse to reach out to the alienated. These ideas are all represented, either literally or symbolically, on "Dance on the Moon." It stars the distinctively pixie-voiced AURORA as an angel. After opening with spare piano, shimmering background atmosphere, and the singer's dreams for a better future ("I hope love will come to us again"), it evolves into a spacy, soaring dance-pop with tight, layered vocal harmonies and a scat-like countermelody. Like much of the record, it's lush, warm, and welcoming, despite the presence of icy timbres, including frequent vocal processing. This is also true of the encouraging, more reflective "Daydreamer" ("I know I'm just a girl/but can I change lives?....I think I can"). AURORA's albums have been both empathic and fanciful from the beginning, but here, via a rousing melody on shimmering, percussive choruses, she issues a call to action: "We become nighttime dreamers, street walkers, small talkers/When we should be daydreamers, and moon walkers, and dream talkers." A few of the album's darker entries are also urgent; the austere "The Seed" warns "You cannot eat money, oh no," and the heavily stylized "Apple Tree" and "Hunger" incorporate hip-hop and Eastern music influences on cautionary, if rhythmically animated tracks. A Different Kind of Human is most compelling when AURORA's vocal performances are allowed room to breathe, as on the captivating title song. While processed vocal harmonies are among the track's otherworldly sounds, the main vocal line is largely exposed and undistorted, a juxtaposition that becomes more profound alongside lyrics like "We have come here for you/And we're coming in peace....This world you live in is not a place for someone like you/Come on let us take you home." It's an album that sticks, both for its theatrical melodies and uncommon benevolence.
© Marcy Donelson /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:40:04
- Main artists: Aurora
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
(C) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC (P) 2019 Glassnote Entertainment Group LLC
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