AURORA marks 10 years of ‘All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend’ with ‘The Moth Tapes,’ demos and the unheard title track
Some songs wait a decade to find their way home. AURORA is marking the 10th anniversary of her debut album All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend by finally releasing its long-lost, previously unheard title track, alongside a companion collection of demos and early recordings she has dubbed The Moth Tapes. Both arrive September 25 via a moth-inspired vinyl reissue, celebrating a decade since the record first catapulted the Norwegian songwriter to global fame.
The title track is the centerpiece, a euphoric song fans have been requesting for years. “Just one look, oh my demons greeting me as a friend, I’m home waiting for time to let go, peace in my body and soul,” AURORA sings in its soaring chorus. That it went unreleased for so long only sharpens its emotional payoff now, a missing puzzle piece slotted back into an album that defined her.
Opening the Archive
The Moth Tapes is built from intimate early recordings, demos, and previously unheard material from the original album era, offering a new perspective on the songs that introduced AURORA to the world. The collection includes demos of “The Silent Twins,” “Running With the Wolves” (a “Hunting demo”), and “Let Me Heal You,” a raw “Black Water Lilies (Vocal Files),” and a 2013 demo of “Runaway.” Longtime collaborators Magnus Skylstad and Odd Martin appear across the project, alongside Michelle Leonard and Sacha Skarbek.
AURORA framed the release as an act of vulnerability. “It’s been over ten years since I wrote these songs, many stories have been long lost and now some of them will find their way into your hearts,” she said. “It feels vulnerable to release something unrefined, but I know sometimes that is what people need the most. I hope these songs create and bring back some good memories for you all.” On social media, she added that it “only feels right to revisit it, and to give some of those songs that didn’t quite make it onto the album back then a little place in the world now.”
A Debut That Refuses to Fade
The timing is more than sentimental. All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend, originally released in 2016, has proven remarkably durable, and one song in particular keeps finding new life. That 2013 “Runaway” demo is a reminder of a track that has become a genuine phenomenon. After a viral breakthrough on TikTok in 2021, “Runaway” surged again in 2026, amassing more than three billion combined streams to date and charting on Shazam across Nigeria, Vietnam, the Philippines, Norway, Indonesia, and Thailand. Across all her song credits, AURORA has now surpassed 10 billion streams.
Her debut era has kept generating new chapters. “Through the Eyes of a Child,” an album track, was released as a proper single in 2025, nine years after the record came out, after featuring in the closing scene of Netflix’s acclaimed series Adolescence. That placement introduced the album to yet another generation, part of a pattern that has seen AURORA’s early work continually rediscovered by new listeners who find their own meaning in her spectral, folk-inflected art-pop.
The Moth Tapes also follows AURORA’s third book, released earlier this year as part of the anniversary celebrations, underscoring how expansively she has come to treat this milestone. For an artist whose whole appeal rests on emotional honesty, reopening the vault on her most formative work is a fitting gesture. These are the unpolished origins of songs that went on to soundtrack millions of lives, offered up exactly as they were, imperfections and all. All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend (The Moth Tapes) arrives September 25, and the title track is out now.
