TOMORA

[Wolkenkrabber]

New Song!

Have we overlooked this in all the excitement of the album and gig announcements?

AURORA sounds kinda celtic on this, like Enya/Clannad.
Tom's production has me saying: I Break Horses much?
Listen to the tail end of Heart To Know. Or listen to all of it!

[Enjoyed]

Vinyl and cd with signed card are pre ordered 👍

Eclipse or Pink Nebula!?

Come Closer is like Snow meets I Break Horses! Big fan.

OOOP. Sorry Wolken!

Tom's production has me saying: I Break Horses much?

[Wolkenkrabber]

Proper video - but shorter audio than above.

[nekoland]

I really like "Come Closer," it's kind of like a spacey electronic mantra... I love Aurora's screams, I love the synthesizers, everything about the song is more than good, in my opinion. Oh, and some of the synth sounds remind me of MAH, awesome.

[Joslyn]

Eclipse or Pink Nebula!?

Pink Nebula and Celestial.

Tom's production has me saying: I Break Horses much?

Which is not strange as Tom helped out on her debut album.

Off topic: I lost track of I Break Horses. Got her debut and third album (Dead Engine is beautiful), saw her live once and according to her Instagram account new music should be coming but it has been silent. 

[Bosco]

Interview on NME

Good interview. The Social looks like an awesome place. It shows great character from beyond the lens.

While they've shared several electronic fused music textures so far (which made this project so highly intriguing), Tomora feels like a journey of instinct, rather than a focus to make something exceptional. I guess what I'm saying is, I've dialed back my expectations for this project.

They have signed versions of the album in the Tomora online store, I hope y'all saw that before preordering!

[feedmevinyls]

This white vinyl release has a sticker on the cover that shows there will be two more singles released: SOMEWHERE ELSE and HAVE YOU SEEN ME DANCE ALONE?

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(The cover art and packaging looks amazing )

There's also some speculation that one of the songs in the tracklist, WAVELENGTHS, is possibly an unreleased Aurora track from ~2017 that was leaked in 2022:

In the NME interview they mention they are on fairly small budget so I wonder what Adam will come up with for the live show. Hopefully they aren't too limited in scope

[Enjoyed]

Come Closer is a "single" but The Thing isn't?

I'm so out of touch 🙃

[Bosco]

In the NME interview they mention they are on fairly small budget so I wonder what Adam will come up with for the live show. Hopefully they aren't too limited in scope

Typically a way around keeping a tight budget is fan participation, maybe? Tell your fandom to wear a mask (or provided an easy to make at home mask), pink wig, something related to Tomora that can be done in mass.

I know it looks great from a streaming perspective (Coachella).

Come Closer is a "single" but The Thing isn't?
I'm so out of touch 🙃

Honestly, none of the tracks so far are conventional singles in my mind. But The Thing is the one that I would've poured my budget into for a well produced music video.

[feedmevinyls]

Come Closer is a "single" but The Thing isn't?

The Thing was labelled a b-side when it came out, but once it showed up on the album I assumed it would count as a single too. Apparently not.

Honestly, none of the tracks so far are conventional singles in my mind.

RTA and The Thing both felt more like singles to me. I get the sense Come Closer was only pushed as a single because it's the title track and part of the album rollout. It doesn't really play like a single at all, and I can't see myself listening to it outside the context of the album.

[whirlygirl]

Come Closer is quite breathtaking, isn't it? Aurora's voice sounds like a blanket of stardust drifting in the wake of satellite transmissions. It was enough to get me to crawl out from under my self imposed hibernation rock and join forum land lol  hi hi! 

Since it has been pointed out I do hear similarities with I Break Horses though it wasn't on my mind when first hearing Come Closer. Cannot wait to hear the whole album and see how the magic comes to life on stage!

[GLAKO-FAHN]

i hope tom gets to just let loose and make some really weird psychedelic shit with this project
{❂‿❂}

[Bosco]

AURORA sounds kinda celtic on this, like Enya/Clannad.

Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance, especially when she gets all shout-y.

[whitelabel84]

Soooo... it is just a thought but I have a sneaking suspicion that the remaining copies of 'Ring The Alarm' white label vinyl (500 hand numbered) will be available at the Manchester and London gigs???

I reckon there are approx. 480 still out there - maybe a little less (having Tom, Aurora, managers, friends, etc receiving a copy).

10 copies were given out to the Instagram Comment competition winners and 10 signed copies at the Rough Trade stores.

Thoughts/feelings/etc 🤔 ...

[Joslyn]

In the NME interview they mention they are on fairly small budget so I wonder what Adam will come up with for the live show. Hopefully they aren't too limited in scope

I guess that is what the (at least) 4 different vinyl releases are for, to increase the budget or cover the costs for the live shows. 😁

Soooo... it is just a thought but I have a sneaking suspicion that the remaining copies of 'Ring The Alarm' white label vinyl (500 hand numbered) will be available at the Manchester and London gigs???

I reckon there are approx. 480 still out there - maybe a little less (having Tom, Aurora, managers, friends, etc receiving a copy).

10 copies were given out to the Instagram Comment competition winners and 10 signed copies at the Rough Trade stores.

Thoughts/feelings/etc 🤔 ...

Those 500 copies or so have been released already I think. 10 Instagram winners, 10 signed scavenger hunt findings, the rest, more or less, have just been sold in record shops or send out to djs. At least that is what I get from communication and number of items popping up for sale.

[Wolkenkrabber]

from r/NameThatSong

Which Tomora track do we think this is? And can you hear that bass?
I'm gonna guess at: Have You Seen Me Dance Alone?
Can anyone make out the lyrics?
It doesn't shazam (yet).

Good interview. The Social looks like an awesome place. It shows great character from beyond the lens.

If you ever visit the Social in the daytime, make sure to order a Fishfinger sandwich (don't let them fob you off with pizza). I saw the band HOLY FUCK! live there once. It gets very packed at night.

That NME interview was long. I finally got around to watching it yesterday. I noted they're still making more music and they say they might never stop!
I suppose it's possible that the track above isn't on the album at all. It might be just something they made as part of their ongoing process. I guess we'll find out soon.

EDIT: PS I get the impression that the interviewer has heard some or all of the album, judging by the way he was talking about which tracks would be good live. I wonder if there is an album preview/review website somewhere for critics etc.
Who has insider news on that? @Einyen ?

[feedmevinyls]

EDIT: PS I get the impression that the interviewer has heard some or all of the album, judging by the way he was talking about which tracks would be good live. I wonder if there is an album preview/review website somewhere for critics etc.

The album name and release date were leaked a full two months early by a random music site in the Netherlands, so the press must get access to far more information than the public does, presumably to try and influence how they report on it. Tom and Ora probably played the interviewer some of the tracks beforehand

[Stefan]

Same shocking thought here. Should I go to Manchester? Should I go Dour? Or can we expect a non-festival gig in a Dutch venue? So many doubts and questions.

My approach is always: when you can see a band live with what is for you an acceptable effort, do it. 
If another or an even better opportunity presents itself, yay, you will see them twice. 

Knowing what gigs are planned or might happen someday is practically impossible to know. 

[Csar]

My approach is always: when you can see a band live with what is for you an acceptable effort, do it.
If another or an even better opportunity presents itself, yay, you will see them twice.

Knowing what gigs are planned or might happen someday is practically impossible to know.

Good advice! I took that to heart last year in London where I was able to see Sigur Rós indeed two times, with the second one not being planned. I was waiting for my family to arrive late at night and it was raining outside all afternoon. So I decided to go see whether there were still tickets left. I was really fortunate as I was the first person in line for return tickets. There weren't any initially but then one ticket got called and it was a great spot too. Felt a little bad for the person who had to return it as it turned out to be a special needs seat area. But the view was phenomenal. Best thing that happened last year.

[Wolkenkrabber]

The album name and release date were leaked a full two months early by a random music site in the Netherlands, so the press must get access to far more information than the public does, presumably to try and influence how they report on it. Tom and Ora probably played the interviewer some of the tracks beforehand

Back in 2015 I remember scouring twitter for news of the forthcoming BITE album. I found one guy talking about it extensively, around 2 months before the album came out. I found that he was mutual Twitter friends with a lady called S (full name redacted!), who was follwed by Ed Simons.
I followed S (still do) and she followed me back, so I PM'd her. She confirmed that Ed had sent her a link to listen to the entire album (inc bonus tracks). Apparently S had quietly forwarded that link to the guy I had first stumbled on. She later asked him to stop tweeting about it.

The press does indeed get access! Bear in mind that print media often release their "March" issues of a music magazine by early February. So if something needs reviewing for that, they would want it in January at the latest.
Did Tom & Aurora sit down with NME guy and play him some tracks from their phone before the interview? I doubt it. I believe the album is already fully available for review purposes - to people like the NME.