It only worked if the power button was continuously held down, which meant that she could only play one-handed, but she still fell in love with the sheer power to create that it gave her and began writing her own songs almost at once. Ironically, she was eventually discovered in , because of a tendency to stage fright. Aurora still confesses to anxiety about performing, although it is well hidden amid the exuberant dancing she sometimes exhibits on stage from 40 mins: 36 secs , and she is such a perfectionist in the recording studio that she finds it difficult ever to accept that any piece of work is finished and can be released.
Her obsessive attention to detail in the studio even goes beyond the music itself. She is known for adding ambient noises to her recordings, such as the sound of walking through leaves, or running a stick along a fence. Yet she writes lyrics that can seem older than time. As a result, her music is hard to categorise.
It has been variously described as Indie, Electropop, and even Folk, and the issue is further heightened by the fact that her live performances frequently present radically altered treatments of a song from the recorded version, often in a markedly different tempo.
Her voice presents a similar contrast, being a usually gentle, almost wistful soprano, which at times can sound childlike in tone, whilst still holding a rich expressiveness that can deliver real power that belies her youthful appearance. She can reach almost unbelievably high notes and sometimes manages near supernaturally long sustains, at the end up which she bends the note up still higher, whilst remaining perfectly on key.
Her usually synth-heavy instrumental parts again tend to be treated with reverb, to create a spacious, but mysterious and highly atmospheric feel, whilst drums, like the vocals, are sometimes multi-tracked, which can lend even otherwise serene songs a surprisingly driving beat.
