New EP - Celebration

[Ben_j]

New "Celebration EP" incoming !

The first snippet sounds very New Order

[Stefan]

Yep, they posted some riddles on their social media over the weekend, and if solved, you could enter the password here:
https://www.tomora.com/celebration/

All details will be public today at 6:30pm BST

For thise who can't wait until then:

Spoiler

Spoiler

PW is: holdonletgo
There will be an EP called Celebration
And two live shows in March in NYC and Mexico City

[Csar]

Thank you y'all for the info!

Here's the new track

[Stefan]

There will be a  CD  of the LP !!!!!!!!

I can't remember the last time any artist released something that isn't a full album on any other medium than vinyl. This legit makes me so happy

[WhiteNoise]

CALLED IT

[Enjoyed]

There will be a  CD  of the LP EP !!!!!!!!

I can't remember the last time any artist released something that isn't a full album on any other medium than vinyl. This legit makes me so happy

Outside of Korea and Japan, yeah! Big, big win.

And a nice song too! I love it kind of devolving and exploding during, and after the "real human beings" section (shout out College & Electric Youth). The visualiser is also fun! Nice to see Adam still experimenting with different effects. I love the pulling to the sides, especially timed with the music (imagine! in 2026!?). It's a really full sound toward the end there too. THICK CHEMICALS.

[Wolkenkrabber]

Ok so there's a Link To in their Instagram bio and then we click "PRE-ORDER LP AND CD" (even though it's actually an EP not an LP) which takes us to the Tomora shop page for the EP. (EDIT: Or we click the link that @Csar set up on the forum front page - D'oh!)
And we have a tracklisting:
1. Celebration
2. Hold On Let Go
3. What Do We Got?
4. IN A MINUTE (LIVE FROM THE STUDIO VERSION)
5. Celebration (Ritual Mix)

We have now heard most of these tracks in some shape or form. But, Hold On Let Go is completely new and unheard AFAIK, unless somebody knows differently?

When I first saw this thing on my phone I couldn't see the tracklisting so I was looking at the centre label on the Teal Splatter Vinyl. I was excited to see three tracks for side A, and wondered if there would be another three brand new tracks on Side B, but no, not quite. Will the Ritual Mix of Celebration be a more full-on dance track, I wonder?

Incidentally I tried going on the SACEM website for the first time in ages - just to check for Chemical and Tomora unreleased titles. When I type Thomas Rowlands in the search bar, nothing happens. I'm not sure if this is just me or if a password is now needed. Anyone else tried?

The Celebration track? It's a sweet Scandi pop song with some nice production from Tom. It's not as good as tunes like I Drink The Light or Come Closer but it's melodic and may have potential to become a radio hit.

Do we know what the audio from this Insta post is from? Could it be the intro to Hold On Let Go?
EDIT: I checked back on the live thread and it seems to be the start of What Do We Got.

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Oh we don't win a prize for solving the password puzzle? Well thank you @Stefan for saving us some time.

[Csar]

The more I listen to Celebration, the more I like it. And I have listened to it quite a few times already A real grower.

I especially like how it goes back and forth between melancholic and hopeful, euphoric vibes. It's got quite some layers and there's a lot of stuff going on besides the main theme which I really appreciate. Like @Enjoyed, i also dig the structure of this. You don't quite know at the beginning where this is gonna go.

What surprised me was that there are quite a few sounds in it that immediately brought me back to my bedroom music days when I fiddled around in Fruity Loops. haha. It's got some rawness to the synths/ samples (love the selection of instruments like the drums) and even the stylistic choice to have a bit of "peaking"/ distortion on the main bass synth (starting at 0:52) which, back in the day I would desperately try to figure out how to get rid of because I messed too much with effects . And it all works so well.

The video idea is nice and I'm always a sucker for synchronising music elements with the imagery. But I'd love for Adam to pull back a bit on the flickering effects he's been deploying recently (with Goodbye taking the cake). It makes me a bit dizzy and distracts a bit too much from what's presented  (quite like the superfast editing of modern action movies)

I'm hoping they're going to play it in Berlin to spice up their current set.
P.S. It came at the right time with its new EP color scheme which now gives me the permission to go green instead of pink (not the biggest fan of pink) for the live show shirt I want to print


Anyways, I'm gonna play it one more time!
   "Like real human beans"

[Stefan]

I'm hoping they're going to play it in Berlin to spice up their current set.

I'm pretty sure that it will be played there

[ThePumisher]

According to setlist.fm they've played it in Tokyo