Tomorrow, In a Year is the studio version of the music commissioned by the Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma for their opera based on Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...

's On the Origin of Species. It is a collaboration between The Knife

The Knife

The Knife are a Swedish electronic music duo from Gothenburg, formed in 1999. The group consists of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records. They first received international attention after their song "Heartbeats", covered by...

, Mt. Sims

Mount Sims

Mount Sims is the stage name of Matthew Sims, a Berlin-based American DJ, performance artist, producer and musician. Starting Mount Sims as a purely electronic music act, later releases have also shown influences from post punk, new wave and darkwave...

 and Planningtorock

Planningtorock

Janine Rostron, better known by her stage name Planningtorock, is an English electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany.-Early life:Rostron enrolled in an art school in Sheffield before she moved to Berlin in 2002...

. It was released digitally on 28 January 2010 through The Knife's own label Rabid Records

Rabid Records

Rabid Records is a Swedish record label founded in 1998 by members of Honey Is Cool. Today the label is operated by Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer of the synthpop duo The Knife, as well as Frau Rabid. The label rarely releases anything other than works by The Knife, but it is currently...

 prior to the physical release.

The album features guest appearances by mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...

 Kristina Wahlin, Danish actress Lærke Winther Andersen (credited on the album as Lærke Winther) and Swedish pop artist Jonathan Johansson

Jonathan Johansson (musician)

Jonathan Johansson, born August 29, 1980, is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter from Malmö. He is currently on Hybris Records.Pitchfork describes his music as containing "the bruised emotionalism and chilly synthcraft of his Swedish language debut, En hand i himlen ."His single "Aldrig...

.

The song "Ebb Tide Explorer" was used in the English television show Skins

Skins (TV series)

Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...

, in "Liv"

Liv (Skins)

Liv is the fourth episode of series 5 of the UK TV series Skins, which first aired on the 17th of February 2011 on E4. It focuses on the character Olivia "Liv" Malone , and features Liv as she attempts to deal with her feelings for her friend, Mini's boyfriend, Nick Levan , and Mini's increasingly...

, the fourth episode of its fifth series.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Intro" (The Knife) – 4:32
2. "Epochs" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 5:43
3. "Geology" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 4:25
4. "Upheaved" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 3:04
5. "Minerals" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 1:19
6. "Ebb Tide Explorer" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 7:06
7. "Variation of Birds" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 6:41
8. "Letter to Henslow" (The Knife, Mt. Sims, Planningtorock) – 2:02
9. "Schoal Swarm Orchestra" (The Knife, Planningtorock) – 8:34

Disc two

1. "Annie's Box" (The Knife) – 4:29
2. "Tumult" (The Knife) – 3:29
3. "Colouring of Pigeons" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 11:00
4. "Seeds" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 9:00
5. "Tomorrow in a Year" (The Knife, Mt. Sims) – 12:19
6. "The Height of Summer" (The Knife) – 3:48
7. "Annie's Box" (Alt. Vocal) – 4:52 (bonus track)

Charts

Chart (2010)	Peak position
Belgian Album Chart Ultratop 50 Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...  (Flanders)	79
Swedish Albums Chart Sverigetopplistan Sverigetopplistan, earlier known as Topplistan and Hitlistan and other names, is since October 2007 the Swedish national record chart, based on sales data from Swedish Recording Industry Association ....	24
U.S. Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums	10
U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Albums Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	32