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Aurora
- Record Label: Glassnote Entertainment Group
- Release Date: Jan 21, 2022
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Jan 21, 2022These songs are her most heartfelt to date, reaching into the depths of her character. The influence of Björk is occasionally audible, but so are inflections from as far afield as Enya and composer Karl Jenkins. Yet Aurora is very much herself, one of the most exciting female singers around – and The Gods We Can’t Touch adds another set of strings to her generously filled bow.
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Jan 19, 2022Here she is not just a musician, but a generational talent capable of creating transfixing otherworlds and, with The Gods We Can Touch, an ethereal masterpiece.
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Feb 10, 2022The Gods We Can Touch feels like a very round pop record, a little bit of everything for everyone, and it's been smartly complemented by great visuals (the video for "Cure for Me" is mesmerizing) and an impeccable production job by Magnus Skylstad, who doubles down as a drummer in her live performances, and multi-instrumentalist and producer Matias Tellez. Definitely a strong contender for one of the most interesting pop albums of the year.
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Jan 20, 2022While The Gods We Can Touch is ultimately a pop record, it only expands upon AURORA's already mystical bearing.
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Jan 20, 2022Though it’s certainly too early to discuss The Gods We Can Touch within 2022’s broader musical canon, it is undoubtedly a complete and flavorful work that contains all the glorious highs and careful lows that Aksnes has always been capable of producing, but has never fully nailed until now.
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Jan 19, 2022These monumental tunes are totally bewitching from start to finish with heartfelt moments and deep intent packed into every second.
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Jan 19, 2022Tightly paced electronic seams blur with floating chamber pop and global influences, warding off any sense of inertia on an album that has one foot in the worldly and another in the firmament.
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Jan 19, 2022‘The Gods We Can Touch’ is loaded with AURORA’s idiosyncratic quirks and enchanting notions, but it’s never purely a slave to whimsy. Now’s the time to give in to AURORA.
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MojoJan 24, 2022It's hard not to wonder whether Aksnes has been crowded-out on her own album [Mar 2022, p.83]
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User score distribution:
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Positive: 138 out of 153
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Mixed: 4 out of 153
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Negative: 11 out of 153
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Jan 21, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Jan 21, 2022her best album by far, she never stops growing as an artist and this is proof of that.
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Jan 23, 2022