Norway’s Ora The Molecule (aka Nora Schjelderup) released her debut album, “Human Safari”, via Mute . Ever since we were first sent the album several months back we’ve been enamoured by album closer “Souldigging” and now that the album is out.
Last February, Schjelderup shared the song “Creator” upon the album’s announcement, she then shared its next single “Die To Be A Butterfly”. There was then another single from it, “The Ball,” via a video that features lots of slow motion shots of her riding a horse (sometimes in reverse), as well as of her with a dog on a beach. “The Ball,” once again landed Ora the Molecule lots of acclaim on the blogging scene.
A press release for “Human Safari” says its songs alternate “between joyous, beat-driven avant-pop and slick synthwave.”
“It’s for sure two poles,” Schjelderup agrees. “The speaker is the storyteller and the instrumentals are nature or the way life goes. Sometimes you get scared, sometimes it opens up. It’s life. I wanted to make a landscape where the voice could guide you through and be a safe voice. So even when it’s a little bit darker, you’re still in the story and it continues.”
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