Progressive Rock
V2 Records · 23 October 2026
The first three songs on Tomorrow Is Now Today are the record’s three advance singles, lined up in a row: “Is It Nothing?”, “Back To You” and “Hidden Fire”, which Lesoir put out between June and September. The unheard material doesn’t begin until the fourth track, “Nadeli”, and the album closes on the short piece that gives it its title.
The six-piece from Maastricht, running since 2009, is led by Maartje Meessen, who sings and plays flute, piano and guitar. Ingo Dassen is credited with guitar and composition, Rutger Martens brings the pedal steel, Ramon Reijnders the programming, and Staf Wouters and Bob Van Heumen the rhythm section. John Cornfield produced, as he has for the band before, and his credits include records by Muse, Robert Plant and Oasis; the vocal arrangements are Paul Reeve’s and the mastering is by Steve Kitch, keyboard player in The Pineapple Thief.
It is their seventh studio album and the first V2 Records is releasing worldwide: until now the Benelux arm had them. The title comes from an idea the band puts plainly: the future is no longer something far off, and whatever is hoped for, feared or fought over is already here. “Back To You” was written thinking of people fighting for their freedom.
Three of the ten songs were out between four months and one month early and they are the three that open the album, so a record announced as urgent starts on material that has been circulating since the summer, and “Nadeli”, where the unknown begins, comes in with the attention already spent. The album lands on the same night the band play the O2 Academy in Birmingham supporting Airbag, on a three-date British run; in November they play ten more across Europe with Anneke van Giersbergen, and none of them is in Catalonia.
Rating: 7.5/10
Text by Guillem Cardós