Based in Asbury Park, New Jersey, Aurora Aura is duo Alice Fawn and Dustin Sebes. Together they conjure richly ethereal soundscapes, Sebes weaving layers of guitar across which Fawn’s vocals are suspended. Last summer’s Ascension EP showed the style in action, its five songs lush and patient, often pushing past the five minute mark to craft world to get lost in.
Following on from the EP, next month sees the release of the debut full-length Aurora Aura record, a self-titled album out via Totally Real Records. Lead single ‘Purity’ builds on the aforementioned style, again evoking a sense of gentle patience in the way it slowly builds. Sebes’s guitar loops act as a kind of downward spiral, a slow deepening that draws the listener in, while Fawn’s abstract imagery finds fertile ground within the shimmer. The result is something poetic and intuitive, an organic unfurling complete with the easy beauty of nature, and the latent melancholy that exists behind its every view.
Never saw you
could you really live
In a perfect dewdrop?
Could – you – really
Could you live in
Cooling breeze?
I feel something
Dream gleam
I sense something
I feel a purity
I know you like when I sing
I know you like I when I leave little piles of berries, little wrapped up twigs I sense something
