There are plenty of left-turns, and they pay off. READ MORE: AURORA on inspiring Billie Eilish and Chemical Brothers and her “explosive” new album ‘A Different Kind Of Human’ There’s more of a widescreen and cinematic scope to the thunderous drums and soaring vocals of ‘The Seed’, as Aurora warns that “ you cannot eat money – oh no” in a cry for us to focus more on love, nature and the bare necessities. ‘Animal is an arena anthem, too – one that asks the listener to lose themselves to instinct. Opener ‘The River’ is a festival-ready electro-pop banger, and a Trojan Horse calling for people to be more open with their emotions, rather than fearing the stigma of vulnerability. The record re-explores the bold political edge and call for empowerment that she first aired on ‘Step 1’. With the follow-up to last year’s mini-album ‘Infections Of A Different Kind (Step 1)’, ‘Step 2’ finds the Norwegian singer wandering even further down her own path – but with a little more fire and focus. While she’s always had the knack for an anthem, she may have always been a little too quirky for the pop charts.

And she even apparently inspired Billie Eilish to make to music. Yet 22-year-old wunderkind Aurora is still largely known as “ her that covered Oasis for that John Lewis Christmas advert”. Her critically acclaimed debut album, 2016’s ‘All My Demons Greeting Me As A Friend’, scored more than 200 million streams and 500,000 sales and was championed by the likes of Troye Sivan and Katy Perry. She was the only guest vocalist on The Chemical Brothers’ ‘No Geography’.

Aurora a different kind of human