The Gods We Can Touch Tracklist
The Gods We Can Touch is AURORA’s third studio album.
On October 6, 2021, the album showed up on the lossless streaming service Qobuz, revealing its title, artwork and full tracklist.
AURORA revealed the album’s release date on an Instagram post on October 14, 2021, besides providing a hyperlink to the pre-order on her Instagram bio. The date was postponed to two weeks later than originally planned.
Five singles were released for the project: “Exist for Love” on May 14, 2020, “Cure for Me” on July 7, 2021, “Giving In to the Love” on October 14, 2021, and “Heathens” on December 3, 2021, along with “A Dangerous Thing” and “Everything Matters” as a double single on January 7, 2022.
“The Gods We Can Touch” Q&A
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Translations
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What have the artists said about the album?
[“Cure For Me”] has something in common with the album in that I’m experimenting with new things and new sides of me. It’s easy for me to make a really ‘AURORA’ album – that feels like nature and mother earth. That comes really naturally to me. So I’m really enjoying doing something different. This is my third and a half album, and it’s about time in my mind to just play around and do something different.
It’s quite sensual actually, and very much about the dark, the light and the absurd combination of the two. To me, music has always been very serious and no fun. I always write about really serious things, and I can see myself standing on stage every night for an hour and being really sad all the time.
I just wanted to make an album for myself that had a bit more cheekiness and wildness. I’m very excited to share the album with you. It’ll come out this year.
—via NME
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What have the artists said about the album?
It’s [castle in Rosendal, Norway] very small and it’s surrounded by these huge mountains. It’s like the castle is being protected by a Mother Earthly hug. It’s very magical and feels like a sanctuary. It has history.
I was very inspired by people and our relationship with power, with each other, with religion, with faith throughout history. A long time ago we seemed to feel like God was around us—in the ground, in the trees, in the water we drank—and therefore also in us. At some point in history, we removed God from the earth and put him far, far away up in the sky.
The album is about freedom.
—via Apple Music
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What has Aurora said about this new project?
Aurora revealed on her “Exist for Love” livestream:
I can’t wait to start giving you more music and more will come. Trust me. And we’re going into a very exciting theme if you may that I care a lot about. I think that the new theme for my whole album connects a lot with how we act, how we behave and how we treat men and women and gay and hetero and the political choices that we make. I feel like it all connects with this new theme that I’m heading into. But yes, I’m just excited for what will come!
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Is there official animated artwork?
Yes, Apple Music features animated artwork for this release.
