AURORA radiates euphoria on recent album 'What Happened To The Heart?'
AURORA’s latest album, “What Happened To the Heart?” is an ethereal soundscape of emotions with profound lyrics. Known for her soulful vocals and captivating melodies, AURORA delivers an album that feels human and expansively divine.
“Your Blood” starts as a whispering ballad, which halfway through turns into a rhythmic song that makes us see AURORA like we have never before. “When all inside you burns like a star / It’s after you burn out that you are reborn again.” The singer finds herself finding the beauty of the human soul in all its forms, celebrating emotions and vulnerability. Talking about this song, AURORA says in an interview with DIY Magazine: “The world is always bleeding, and you never know what is going on under people’s skin. I think it’s only when we reach out to each other that we understand what compassion and beauty we are capable of.”
The track “The Conflict Of The Mind” discusses themes of mental health and the conflict of opening up to the people you love. With a simple beat and synths, AURORA makes sure that the lyrics and the vocals are the main core of the song. The verses are soft with just a few instrumentals, while the chorus feels bigger, with more powerful harmonies and instrumentals. “Only when I see you cry / I feel conflicted in my mind / It fills my heart up, and it breaks me at the very same time / When you open up the gates for me” are lyrics that talk about the difficulty some people have when expressing their repressed feelings to those around them. AURORA shared on social media: “This is a song for everything you never said, everything we left unspoken. Everything we still feel lingering in the air around us.”
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“Earthly Delights” is a song that talks about loneliness and the consumption of time within a person dealing with this emotion. “But I’m so lonely / So lonely / If everything dies / Oh, why can’t you love me?” are lyrics that talk about the difficulty of feeling unloved by a person who means the world to the artist, often referring to them in the song and referencing the suppressed emotions that she deals with as time consumes her to a breaking point. With building synths and a fun beat that goes along perfectly with the song lyrics, it perfectly describes a feeling of euphoria
Through the singer’s empowering and powerful vocals, the album has a constant theme of life, loss, and love that perfectly showcases her unique sound and blends of genres. AURORA proves that she is a refreshment of genuine artistry and love for their craft. For anyone seeking a musical experience that transcends the ordinary and touches the divine, “What Happened To the Heart?” is an essential listen.