Today, Tom Odell shares ‘Butterflies’, a tender, endearing track featuring the angelic tones of Norwegian singer-songwriter AURORA. The track is a sonic continuation of Best Day Of My Life, Tom's latest album released in October.
‘Butterflies’ is a dedication to pure love and the tender lyrical declaration is complimented by the elegant blend of their voices, highlighting their natural synergy.
Talking about the track, Tom said: "I have been a fan of AURORA and her music for many years and it was a dream come true to make this song together. It’s a song about spending the day with somebody you really like and at the end of the day having to say goodbye to them, not knowing if you will ever see them again, but being happy for the experience regardless."
Tom’s fifth studio album, Best Day Of My Life, was praised upon its release as “a minimalist masterpiece” (CLASH), “the perfect autumnal listen” (The i) and “astonishing” (Daily Telegraph). With focus taken off commercial expectation around his songwriting, Tom created an environment where listeners can sit with the music and breathe. Inspired by a Rick Rubin quote on the importance of applying rules to yourself, he put that into practice, limiting himself to creating music using just his voice and his piano. The result is a work of minimalist beauty, comprising just Tom’s voice, a piano and the occasional creak of a stool, to form what is not just Tom’s rawest and most honest album to date with its profound songwriting and masterful piano, but a body of work of which Tom is immensely proud.
Tom’s hit single ‘Another Love’ continues to reach stratospheric heights, with over 1.4 billion Spotify streams - an incredible milestone achieved by just 200 artists - and it recently entered the Top 10 of the UK Official Singles Chart after weeks in the Top 20. The single had a phenomenal resurgence in 2022 with the sound used in videos on the crisis in Ukraine. Subsequently, Tom performed it at ITV’s Concert For Ukraine that raised £13.4m and at Bucharest train station to raise awareness and money for Ukrainian refugees, and he came together with GRAMMY Award winning DJ and Producer Tiësto for a remix with proceeds donated to Choose Love.
Tom featured in Billboard’s Global 200 Artists of 2022 ahead of Rosalía, Charlie Puth and Arctic Monkeys and is one of the top 15 British artists worldwide across streaming platforms. His continued creative development and dedication to his audience is propelling him forward at an exponential rate, ensuring 2023 will be another exciting year.
Singer, songwriter and producer AURORA has proven to be a three-sided talent; the Norwegian artist now has more than 12 million monthly listeners on Spotify, her songs have been streamed an incredible 3.3 billion times, and she has sold over a million albums worldwide. Her fourth album The Gods We Can Touch (2022) was critically praised and her ethereal, atmospheric pop music, distinctive voice and lyrical messages has attracted a continuously growing, as well as extraordinary dedicated, fanbase all over the world.
About Tom Odell
Singer, songwriter and musician, Tom Odell was propelled straight to the forefront of the mainstream when his debut EP, Songs From Another Love, was released in 2012, catching mass attention and leading him to win a BRITs Critics’ Choice Award in 2013 and a place in BBC’s coveted Sound Of list. Later that year, his platinum-selling debut album Long Way Down was released to critical acclaim and went straight to #1 on the UK Albums Chart. Rightfully praised for his songwriting prowess, in 2014 Tom won the prestigious title of Songwriter Of The Year at the Ivor Novello Awards before his stunning cover of The Beatles’ ‘Real Love’ accompanied the highly anticipated and long-cherished John Lewis Christmas advert. Tom went on to release his second studio album, Wrong Crowd, in 2016, which charted at #2 and is BPI certified Gold, and his third studio album, Jubilee Road, was released in 2018.
Tom’s dedicated work ethic became an obsession that culminated in crippling anxiety, leading to a dark period of mental health that Tom wrote his way through. These broader lyrical horizons needed to be matched by a musical expansion, coming in the form of his genre-bending 2021 fourth studio album, Monsters, the final album to fulfil his major label record deal with Columbia Records. The album’s DIY and electronic sound was crafted in a threadbare way using instruments he had to hand during the height of the pandemic like Moog synths - a move underpinned by both necessity and a desire to explore. Now an independent artist, free from the constraints of a major label, Tom Odell has stripped things back.
Armed with a newfound sense of freedom and creative control, this new era of Tom’s career sees him take focus off hooks and strategy and instead create an environment where his audience can sit with the music and breathe. The result is a work of minimalist beauty, comprising just Tom’s voice, a piano and the occasional creak of a stool.