I don’t understand why or how we can bully each other. You never know what will happen if I explode.ĪURORA: When people are treated unfairly or when people are getting bullied. I think it’s good for you, and I try to be in touch with my feelings and emotions as much as I can, and I try not to put them aside, or else I might blow up. It was just a cry for no particular reason. TINKHAM: When was the last time that you cried?ĪURORA: Yesterday. I think I just watched the news once, as a nine-year-old, and had to write about it. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me. TINKHAM: With your first song, “I Had a Dream,” how did you get the idea of the world being a sad place at such a young age?ĪURORA: I’m very sensitive. I think that’s a movie as well, but that’s his name. I collect dead bugs, and he’s called Nightcrawler. A free animal doesn’t have a name, I feel. I feel that he’s a part of the family but he’s free.ĪURORA: No. It’s like a crow, and he sits in that tree almost every day. I have this bird that’s not mine but I feel that it lives with us, ’cause we have all these trees outside our house. Do you have any pets?ĪURORA: I really want a pet, and I really love animals. TINKHAM: On Facebook, you recommended that fans share your track, “Running With the Wolves,” with a pet. I always feel that I’m safe at home, near my family, the forest as well. “Runaway” kind of fits my situation ’cause it can be scary to be everywhere else for a long time. Were you having premonitions of the touring lifestyle when you wrote them?ĪURORA: It’s weird-these songs fit my situation better now, because I’m traveling a lot, at least once a week. Last night, Aurora previewed songs from her forthcoming debut LP (due this fall) at Rough Trade in Brooklyn, and tonight, she will preview them once more at Rockwood Music Hall, marking her first return to New York since CMJ last year.ĬHRIS TINKHAM: Your songs “Runaway” and “Awakening” both express a yearning to return home. Martin and Magnus Skylstad, while also incorporating bits of nature through field recordings. Although she was upset by this at first, it led the singer-songwriter to her current management. Since then, the now 18-year-old has been developing her sound in the studio: producing with bandmates O. Shortly thereafter, in December 2012, a friend posted her brooding track, “Puppet,” to a Norwegian website for unsigned artists. Before the release, in March, Katy Perry tweeted a link to the wintry video for the EP’s lead track, “Runaway,” telling her 60 million followers that she finally found new music that made her heart flutter.įor most of her life, Aurora was too shy to share her music with others, even her family, and it wasn’t until her last day of 10th grade that she performed in public for the first time. “I was quite strange as a kid, even more than I am now.”Įarlier this month, Aurora (who drops her surname as an artist) released her debut EP, Running With the Wolves, a four-song collection that showcases her world-weary storytelling, adorned by elegant folk melodies and sparkling electronic instrumentation. “I understand that people find me a bit strange, but I don’t think about it that much,” she says. Her first composition, “I Had a Dream,” addressed how harsh the world can be when she was 11, the sight of a drunken man sleeping on the streets of her small, coastal hometown of Os, Norway, saddened her to the point of feeling compelled to write about him. Ever since Aurora Aksnes began writing songs at age nine, melancholy has steadily seeped into her music.
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