Ora the Molecule has released a new Úlfur Kjalar Eyjólfsson directed video for “Becoming A Human,” the song is off the artist’s album Dance Therapy, now available via Mute. She has also announced May US tour dates that will include Los Angeles, Seattle and New York.

Speaking on the video, she says: “Ulfur was the bartender at this place I used to DJ and one day he told me he wanted to make a music video. I said “sure!” And suddenly he had gathered this huge crew of friends and professionals to create this epic queer action sci fi video. I was blown away. A dream come true.”

Dance Therapy became deeply conceptual, with Schjelderup working off a prompt: If we encountered intelligent life in outer space, how would she present herself? “Would I be this mundane shit — I’m constantly heartbroken, I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up,” she says. “Or will I try to rise and be the highest version of myself possible? To be as glamorous and fabulous as I could?”

Schjelderup’s intergalactic vision drew upon a broad array of references. While exploring a “study” of electronic pioneer Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia, she began favoring digital reproductions of various modular synths and theremin. Italo disco star Raffaella Carrà inspired Ora The Molecule becoming a more full-blown character separated from but symbiotic with Schjelderup herself, while the music of Annie Lennox helped shape Dance Therapy’s narrative heft.

Ora tHe Molecule
Dance Therapy
track listing
Mute

1. Becoming A Human
2. Intergalactic Dance
3. Løveskatt
4. Prince Of The Rhythm
5. Is This Love?
6. Nobody Cares
7. If I Believed
8. Cyber Fever
9. Evig Ung
10. New Years
11. Let Me Dance
12. Becoming Ora

Ora the Molecule 2025 Tour Dates:

5/13/2025 – Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s
5/15/2025 – Los Angeles, CA – El Cid
5/22/2025 – Brooklyn, NY – Night Moves

Order Dance Therapy HERE