For her third full-length album, Norwegian singer-songwriter and electro-pop producer Aurora Aksnes retreated to a castle in Rosendaël, France, a gorgeous, secluded place. “It's very small and it's surrounded by these huge mountains. It's like the castle is being protected by a Mother Earthly hug,” she tells Apple Music. “It’s very magical and feels like a sanctuary. It has history.” Unsurprisingly, mythological interest reverberates across the album, from allusions to Greek goddesses as earthly beings in large, ethereal, Kate Bush-esque moments (Aphrodite on “Exist for Love,” Panacea on “Cure for Me”) to an interest in Frenchness (“a thank you to the castle that let me record my album,” she says of her collaboration with Lyon musician Pomme on “Everything Matters”).