AURORA All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend (Glassnote) This is the 19-year-old Norwegian singer Aurora Aksnes aka AURORA debut album. AURORA might hail from Norway, but you’d be forgiven if you mistook her as a fairy from the Scottish highlands. As a singer, she’s utterly enchanting on her breakout tune, “Runaway,” which takes celtic new age and injects it with dreamy, modern pop songcraft. But she can shift in an instant from pixie lilt to a confident strut on the sun-drenched pop-rocker “Conqueror.” To witness her vocal transformation across All My Demons Greeting Me—from subdued and nuanced to over-the-top epic—is breathtaking. “It is so much more satisfying to make an album than one song at a time,” says Aksnes in a press release. “One song is only a chapter and the album is the book. I’m very excited to release this one, my first, and I’m already starting to plan my second. This album is the first of many, and it’s been a journey making it.” Visit AURORA’s website here!
Watch an illuminating mini-documentary about AURORA, Into The Light, below.
EMMY THE GREAT Second Love (Bella Union) Emmy the Great is the moniker of synth pop artist, Emma-Lee Moss, and this new album is her follow-up to 2012’s Virtue. It’s Emmy’s 3rd studio album. On the name of her new album, Second Love, Emmy says “I spent at least two years with my head down, working on this record, completely obsessed by it… When it was finished my whole being felt completely different. I realized that in that time my life had changed, the world had change. I wasn’t even in my twenties anymore. I felt like, at some point, I’d crossed a border without noticing. I was also thinking about my first record, First Love, and how this felt closer to that record than Virtue. It felt like First Love, but in the new reality I’d entered.” Visit Emmy The Great’s website here!
PETE YORN ArrangingTime (Capitol) This is his sixth full-length studio album, and first for Capitol Records. ArrangingTime plays with the elasticity of the years— it’s not only a culmination of the Los Angeles by way of New Jersey artist’s adventurous latter-day projects, but a return to his original leaner methods. For the first time since Yorn’s RIAA gold-certified debut, musicforthemorningafter [2001] and its follow-upDay I Forgot [2003] producer R. Walt Vincent returns to help Yorn execute his most poised and diverse set of songs yet. ArrangingTime runs the gamut from elegiac folk to wasteland blues to upbeat, synth-kissed rock. Of course, some things never change. Yorn still plays the observer, stepping into characters — or his past selves from previous years — routing wistful poems and beatific visions through the weather-beaten voice of a man who’s seen a few things in his time. “I’ll look at pictures of places I went, or things I did,” says Yorn, “and I think, ‘Look at how great that day was and you just missed it.’ I think about the past and how much of it is a blur. The title of the album is a reminder to be present and within each song is a minor lesson about that. Time only gets faster as you get older.” Visit Pete Yorn’s website here!
Also Available The Week Of March 11
BRIAN FALLON (leader of The Gaslight Anthem) Painkillers (Island)
BROTHERS COMATOSE City Painted Gold (Swamp Jam)
JEFF BUCKLEY You and I (previously unreleased tracks from the late folk icon) (True Tone Group)
GAVIN JAMES Bitter Pill (Capitol)
LUCIUS Good Grief (Mom + Pop)
RITA WILSON Rita Wilson (independent)
SILVA Jupiter (Six Degrees)
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