Over the last decade, Australian born, Sweden based artist John Chantler, has emerged as a notable force in the worlds of electronic experimentalism and modular synthesis, relentlessly refining his pursuit of sonic unknowns through a series of carefully crafted solo releases, as well as within collaborations with acoustic instrumentalists like Johannes Lund, Steve Noble, & Seymour Wright. His latest LP, Tomorrow is Too Late, issued by Room40, is proof that great things come for those who wait. Intricate, immersive, and uncompromising, it’s arguably his most accomplished and mesmerising record to date.

Tomorrow Is Too Late, thrilling and ambitious at every turn, encounters an artist pushing wildly afield, taking each interested ear along for the ride. Commissioned by INA GRM for their Présences Électroniques festival in 2018, and recorded at INA-GRM Paris, on Serge and Coupigny synths, on the concert organ at Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg; and in his studio in Stockholm across the same year, the album displays a radical, forward thinking approach to structure and interplay, moving through nuanced articulations, subtle microtonal movements, pure abstraction, and passages of intense harmonic saturation, sprawling outward into an imagistic, often hallucinatory, landscape of detailed tone - a second space, to be occupied, explored, and uncovered within the realm of sound.

With nods to the principal radicalism and ideologies which underscore the historic efforts of the electronic avant-garde, not only is Tomorrow is Too Late a high water mark in Chantler’s already noteworthy career, but it’s easily one of the best electronic records we’ve heard this year.