Alt-pop sensation AURORA today releases her new single ‘Some Type Of Skin’, via Decca Records/Glassnote/Petroleum. First played by Clara Amfo on BBC Radio 1 last night as ‘Hottest Record’, the single is a dark slice of electro-pop revealing AURORA’s conflict between vulnerability and her need for emotional resilience.
Co-produced by Chris Greatti (Yungblud, Grimes, Blink-182, Willow) and mixed by Mitch McCarthy (Olivia Rodrigo, Lady Gaga, Conan Gray), the track also features London's experimental vocal ensemble Shards. AURORA performed ‘Some Type of Skin’ live for the first time during an intimate one-off exclusive show at London’s Lafayette during BRITs Week 2024 for War Child where the track was praised by an ecstatic crowd.
“I’ve always been told that I should build some type of skin. I’ve always let myself merge too much with the world, not really knowing where the world ends and I begin. This song screams the muchness of it. And it’s delicious. Being human is really delicious, even though it’s more than any of us can handle. My god it’s a lot.” explains AURORA about the track.
The single is coming with a music video that AURORA co-directed with Kaveh Nabatian (The Barr Brothers). "Kaveh feels like a strange soulmate from another world. When our minds collide it’s always wonderful. It was wonderful to join minds once again, bringing loneliness to life - visually." adds AURORA about the video.
Freshly announced, AURORA is set to hit the stage of the iconic Glastonbury Festival for the third time in her career, alongside Dua Lipa, Coldplay, SZA and Shania Twain. She’ll then captivate audiences at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and join the lineup for Japan’s Summer Sonic later this summer.
AURORA is currently on a 10-date tour across Norway, sold out every night. This year, she has already released singles ‘Your Blood’ and ‘The Conflict Of The Mind’, which were both championed on BBC Radio 1 & BBC Radio 2 with millions of views on YouTube. This new material follow her third, and highest charting album to date, ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ which went Top 10 in the Official UK Album Chart in 2022. Adding to her multifaceted talent, AURORA released her very first book last year, also titled ‘The Gods We Can Touch’, in collaboration with Decca Records & Faber Music, with sales surpassing 14,000 copies to date, and printing press had to be relaunched due to unprecedented high demand.
Since signing with Decca Records/Glassnote in 2014, AURORA’s global fanbase has soared, fueled by her lively lyrics and unique stage presence. Growing up surrounded by the scenic forests and mountains near Bergen in Norway, AURORA has turned her individuality, her independence and her strength of spirit into platinum discs, over a million album sales, 12.6 million monthly listeners and a whopping 10 billion streams. In 2022, AURORA completed a sold-out UK headline tour finishing at a packed O2 Brixton Academy in London, before dominating stages worldwide for the rest of her ‘The Gods We Can Touch’ tour, and joining the star-studded line up at BST Hyde Park. AURORA performed at a plethora of festivals last summer, including London’s All Points East Festival, Lollapalooza (Berlin, Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and Rock En Seine (Paris).
With a debut book and three studio albums to her name, along with an Academy Award Nomination (for ‘Into the Unknown’, Frozen II), AURORA’s success seems boundless. ‘Your Blood’, ‘The Conflict of the Mind’ and now ‘Some Type of Skin’ mark a new era for the young artist, ushering in another chapter of her ever evolving and distinctive journey.
2024 Aurora Tour Dates:
March 3rd – Hamar Kulturhus, Hamar SOLD OUT
March 7th – Røkeriet, USF Verftet, Bergen SOLD OUT
March 8th – Røkeriet, USF Verftet, Bergen SOLD OUT
March 9th – Røkeriet, USF Verftet, Bergen SOLD OUT
March 13th – Byscenen, Trondheim SOLD OUT
March 14th – Byscenen, Trondheim SOLD OUT
March 16th – Stavanger Konserthus, Stavanger FINAL TICKETS
March 21st – Sentrum Scene, Oslo EXTRA DATE ADDED
March 22nd – Sentrum Scene, Oslo SOLD OUT
March 23rd – Sentrum Scene, Oslo SOLD OUT
2024 Festivals:
June 26th-30th – Glastonbury Festival, Pilton, England
July 5th – Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
July 10th – Slottsfjell Festival, Tønsberg, Norway
July 12th – NOS Alive, Lisbon, Portugal
July 13th – Cruilla Festival, Barcelona, Spain
July 18th – Ravnedalen, Kristiansand, Norway
July 19th – Malakoff Festival, Nordfjordeid, Norway
July 24th – Paleo Festival, Nyon, Switzerland
August 17-18th – Summer Sonic, Osaka/Tokyo Japan
August 25th – Summer Sonic, Bangkok, Thailand
August – Sziget, Budapest, Hungary
August – Zurich Open Air, Zurich, Switzerland
