TOMORA is a collaborative project featuring:
- The Chemical Brothers‘ Tom Rowlands: As one-half of The Chemical Brothers, Rowlands has produced and recorded six widely acclaimed UK #1 albums and won six Grammy Awards.
- Norwegian artist AURORA: AURORA has released four studio albums and has quickly become one of Norway’s most influential and globally recognized contemporary artists. Her single “Runaway” has amassed over one-billion Spotify streams to date.
TOMORA builds upon a creative relationship that can be traced to the recording sessions for The Chemical Brothers’ 2019 album No Geography. AURORA contributed vocals to three tracks, including “Eve of Destruction.” Rowlands then went on to contribute to AURORA’s 2024 effort, What Happened to the Heart?, which landed on the UK Top 10.
Released earlier this year through Capitol Records, the duo’s full-length debut, COME CLOSER was written and produced jointly by Rowlands and AURORA. The 12-song album sees the duo pairing the Norwegian artist’s distinctive vocal with the acclaimed British producer’s unparalleled studio expertise. The album sees the duo creating their own unique space, somewhere they can produce the kind of magic that comes from flicking through a perfect record collection, flowing from wigged-out 1960s psychedelia to the hyper-futurism of sounds imagined for the 2060s.
The critically applauded album includes the previously released singles “COME CLOSER” “SOMEWHERE ELSE” and “I DRINK THE LIGHT.”
After two wildly successful tour runs that included festival sets at Coachella, Fuji Rock and others, the duo went to Rowlands’ Sussex, UK-based Rowlands Audio Research Studio to record COME CLOSER‘s highly-anticipated follow-up, the five-song CELEBRATION EP. Slated for an October 16, 2026 digital release and a November 27, 2026 physical release through Capital Records. The physical release will include a standard 12″ black vinyl, a special marbled vinyl and CD formats. You can pre-order the EP here.
The acclaimed duo say of the EP: “Celebration is a privilege. Celebration is a person. Celebration is a funeral and celebration is a ritual. It’s human nature. And it’s a human need. We should all be celebrated, as real human beings.”
The new EP will include the expanded, ten-minute version of album track, “IN A MINUTE,” and EP title track “Celebration.” “Celebration” features a dazzlingly hypnotic production anchored around motorik-like electronic pulse and club rocking, thumping beats beneath AURORA’s imitable, ethereal and yearning delivery. The result is a track that feels simultaneously immediate and expansive, introspective yet outward-looking, and yearning for ecstatic release.
Along with the new single, the duo announced that their first East Coast North American headline show will be on March 24, 2027 at the Brooklyn Paramount. The newly announced date follows the duo’s acclaimed run of intimate live shows earlier this year and it’ll be part of a handful of 2027 international tour dates. Check out the tour dates below.
TOMORA Tour Dates
September 25 – Strawberry Festival – Shijiazhuang, China
September 27 – Strawberry Festival – Guangzhou, China
October 1 – Tokyo Garden Theatre – Tokyo, Japan
October 24 – National Stadium – Dublin, Ireland
October 26 – SWG3 Galvanizers – Glasgow, United Kingdom
October 28 – Roundhouse – London, United Kingdom (SOLD OUT)
October 30 – L’Aéronef – Lille, France
October 31 – Amare – The Hague, Netherlands (SOLD OUT)
November 1 – UFO – Berlin, Germany
March 24, 2027 – Brooklyn Paramount – New York, NY (NEW SHOW)
March 26, 2027 – Pabellón Oeste – Mexico City, Mexico (NEW SHOW)
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