TOMORA COME CLOSER

Critic's Take

TOMORA's COME CLOSER feels like a vital escape, a debut that kicks presumptions to the kerbside with effervescent giddiness. The record swings between android-ethereal textures and thunderously bangin' beats, and that bold contrast makes tracks like “COME CLOSER” and “I DRINK THE LIGHT” feel like the best songs on COME CLOSER. Thomas H. Green's prose praises the chemistry between Tom Rowlands and Aurora, noting this collaboration sounds urgent and necessary rather than merely curious. That urgency, more than polish, is what marks the album's standout moments and the best tracks on the record.

Key Points

• The title track captures the urgent, necessary chemistry that makes it the album's best song.
• The album's core strength is its contrast between android-ethereal textures and thunderously bangin' energy, delivered with effervescent giddiness.

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Critic's Take

It presents the best songs on COME CLOSER as festival-ready crowd-pleasers and adventurous pop experiments, exacting both spectacle and intimacy. The voice stays celebratory and vivid, calling the album exceptional, beautiful and, crucially, shit tonnes of fun.

Key Points

• The best song work is the high-energy rave-pop like "Ring The Alarm" which combines urgency and block-rocking beats.

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Critic's Take

TOMORA sound like a megaduo in full flight on COME CLOSER, where stomping choruses and banging rave beats make certain songs stand out. The title track “COME CLOSER” is described as a fantastical tune with mystical, epic vocals that meld Aurora and Rowlands, and it emerges as one of the best tracks on COME CLOSER. Likewise, “A BOY LIKE YOU” is singled out as a bigger-is-better wraithlike power ballad, another highlight among the best songs on the album. Elsewhere the thunderous “RING THE ALARM” channels prime Chemical Brothers roof-rattling onslaught, cementing these three as the album’s chief standouts.

Key Points

• The title track “COME CLOSER” is best for its mystical, epic vocals and enormous production.
• The album’s core strengths are maximalist production, dance-pop fusion, and Aurora’s ethereal vocals.

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Critic's Take

TOMORA's COME CLOSER often rewards patience, and the best tracks show why: “COME CLOSER” drifts with icy scope while “RING THE ALARM” supplies the record's kinetic payoff. The reviewer's tone keeps a measured affection - noting how AURORA's voice is folded into texture and Rowlands' production alternates between muscle and restraint. For listeners asking what the best songs on COME CLOSER are, the title track and “Ring the Alarm” repeatedly emerge as moments where ideas follow through and everything clicks.

Key Points

• The title track is the best example of the album's spacious, icy moments where ideas follow through.
• The album's core strength is the uneasy but productive proximity of two distinct approaches, creating fluid, open-ended pieces.

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Critic's Take

TOMORA feels like a good-natured side quest, and on COME CLOSER the best songs prove why that risk pays off. The title track “COME CLOSER” is a glowing space ballad where AURORA exorcises demons with haunted shrieking, making it one of the best tracks on COME CLOSER. Dark, bluesy trip-hop cuts like “A BOY LIKE YOU” and “THE THING” creep with introspective lyrics and an industrial tinge, staking their claim among the album's standout moments. Elsewhere, club-ready pieces such as “RING THE ALARM” and “MY BABY” show the duo channeling Chemical Brothers energy while keeping an otherworldly edge.

Key Points

• The title track “COME CLOSER” stands out for its haunting, cathartic vocal performance.
• The album's core strength is adventurous genre-blending that pairs Chemical Brothers-style production with AURORA's otherworldly vocals.

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Critic's Take

TOMORA's COME CLOSER is at its best when the duo lock into those bruising-but-breathable moments, most notably on “COME CLOSER” where Rowlands' sparse production lets Aurora howl and beseech. The reviewer's eye lingers on “SOMEWHERE ELSE” as another highlight, a marriage of throbbing synths and pointed vocals that actually lands. Yet the tone remains measured - the record often flirts with greatness but rarely sustains it, with pieces like “I DRINK THE LIGHT” feeling at times like competing agendas rather than true fusion. Overall, the best tracks on COME CLOSER show what this pairing can be when it truly gels, even if the album falls short of a breakthrough.

Key Points

• The title track “COME CLOSER” is the album's standout because sparse production gives Aurora dramatic space to sing.

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Critic's Take

In his acid, vividly skeptical voice Noah Barker treats TOMORA's COME CLOSER as a cultural oddity, calling out the best tracks as those that find stillness amid chaos - notably “COME CLOSER” and “A BOY LIKE YOU” which he praises for their "remarkable stillness" and flow. He frames the album's high points as stunning ballads at the record's opening and close, but repeatedly returns to how bravura restraint is undone by gratuitous gimmicks. For readers searching for the best songs on COME CLOSER, Barker's verdict is clear: the title track and “A BOY LIKE YOU” are where the record's quiet rewards lie, while the rest succumbs to noisy, ill-conceived flourishes.

Key Points

• The title track is best because it and "A BOY LIKE YOU" achieve a remarkable stillness that the rest of the album often fails to sustain.
• The album's core strength is its moments of restraint and balladry, undermined by garish production choices and collaboration friction.

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