TOMORA - the new duo of The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and AURORA - announce their debut album, COME CLOSER, and share the title track.
The 12-track record will be released April 17 via Fontana and will include debut singlel ‘RING THE ALARM’, ‘THE THING’ and their latest single. The official video for new single ‘COME CLOSER’ was produced & directed by Adam Smith and S T A R T !.
Of the announcement, TOMORA says: “This is our album ‘COME CLOSER’, it is everything we dreamt of. We made it without obligation or expectation, just a joy in creation. It’s the sound where we meet, the landing zone of our musical escape pods. It is a special place to us. We hope you dig it as much as we do.”
Listen to ‘COME CLOSER’ on the Premier League playlist.
TOMORA is a new collaboration between The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Norwegian artist AURORA. The project builds on a creative relationship that began during sessions for The Chemical Brothers’ 2019 album No Geography, on which AURORA featured on three tracks, including ‘Eve of Destruction’. Rowlands later contributed to AURORA’s 2024 UK Top 10 album What Happened to the Heart?.
COME CLOSER, Tom and AURORA’S debut LP as TOMORA, is less about two separate artists finding a fertile middle ground and more the sound of a tenacious duo connecting in the studio and hitting massive creative peaks together. Across the twelve-track album, Tom and AURORA build their own unique space — somewhere they can produce the kind of magic and electricity that comes from flicking through a perfect record collection, flowing from the wigged-out psychedelia of the 1960s to the super-futurism of sounds imagined for the 2060s.
Also announced alongside the release of ‘COME CLOSER’ are the first-ever live shows by TOMORA, which will take place at Manchester’s New Century Hall on March 25 and then at London’s EartH Hackney on March 26 – all before their first festival performances at Coachella in April. Visual direction at the shows will come from Adam Smith, long time collaborator of The Chemical Brothers and more recently of AURORA.
