TOMORA - the new duo of AURORA and Tom Rowlands of The Chemical Brothers - have released their brand new single, ‘SOMEWHERE ELSE’.
‘SOMEWHERE ELSE’ is TOMORA at their purest. A distillation of sound, message and super powered sonics, the track is taken from the duo’s forthcoming album, COME CLOSER. Beginning with a beautiful, otherworldly vocal melody that could be beamed from a distant star and channeled through AURORA, and fused with a rhythm track that’s somehow blissed out and unrelentingly heavy at the same time, the whole thing dissolves into something intimate and unplaceable.
Familiar and strange, eternal and addictive, ‘SOMEWHERE ELSE’ is the dictionary definition of what pop music should sound like in the 21st century.
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Of the new single, AURORA says, “SOMEWHERE ELSE is one of the first songs we ever wrote, as TOMORA. And it opened up a big door for us, into our world.”. Tom adds, “Ever since AURORA sang that melody to me it’s been running around my head brightening my day. We played an early version of the song at Glastonbury Festival and it felt like magic. Now we get to share it, it’s a total joy.”
The release comes ahead of TOMORA’s first ever live shows, which will take place at Manchester’s New Century Hall on March 25 before coming to London’s EartH Hackney on March 26.
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.
