Tomorrow Woman
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Tomorrow Woman announces debut EP 'Plays Machines' out May 1st & shares first single "Honey Factory".
Tomorrow Woman is the project of California-born, Paris-based artist Betsy Roszko, formerly of punk band Gomme. After a seven-year hiatus from releasing music, Betsy re-emerges with a project rooted in identity, renewal, and creative freedom. With Tomorrow Woman, Betsy steps boldly into the world of electronic music, carrying forward the punk instinct for disruption into the layered, boundless world of synthesised sound. The project is both a homecoming and a departure: a chance to deconstruct the electronic music that shaped her youth and to uncover how those sounds work, evolve, and continue to resonate.
Today Tomorrow Woman announces her debut EP 'Plays Machines' is set for release May 1st and shares the lead single "Honey Factory".
On the track, Betsy said
"'Honey Factory' is a fever-dream fantasy of burning it all down. I was thinking about this idea of being a bee in someone else’s machine, and how luxury today feels dystopian."
Raised in a Petaluma and later moving to San Francisco, Betsy’s relationship to music began early; immersed in 90s pop, alternative, and electronic music through MTV, VH1, and her older brother’s CD collection. While electronic music captivated her imagination, it felt distant from the suburban Northern California music scene she grew up in. Instead, Rosko turned to dance, ballet and modern, allowing her body to become her first instrument, and movement her primary language.
Betsy didn’t begin playing music until her early twenties. Without formal training, she initially gravitated toward San Francisco’s garage, post-punk, and punk scenes, where passion mattered more than polish. Punk became an entry point - a space of permission. She learned drums, discovering that rhythm felt like “dancing with her hands”.
Her first band, Warm White, was short-lived, but it set the foundation for what followed. In 2014, Betsy relocated to Paris, where she co-founded the all-female goth/post-punk trio Gomme. The band quickly became a fixture in the European underground, releasing an LP and an EP, touring across Europe and the U.S.
Tomorrow Woman emerged slowly and unexpectedly. After a long break, Betsy began teaching herself music production from scratch, working alone with a cracked DAW, YouTube tutorials, and a deeply ingrained DIY mentality. In doing so, she reconnected not only with music, but with Europe’s electronic lineage, finding a new sense of belonging in France through sound. The project became a space of rediscovery - technically, creatively, and personally.
At its core, Tomorrow Woman carries punk’s instinct for disruption into the boundless world of electronic music. Dance remains central: her music is written as a soundtrack for bodies in motion, informed by years of studying contemporary choreography and spending time at the Centre National de Danse archive, drawing inspiration from choreographers in contemporary ballet and modern dance such as Alvin Ailey, Crystal Pite, and William Forsythe.
Tomorrow Woman’s debut EP, Plays Machines, was written and recorded entirely in Betsy’s living room, just outside Paris. The EP embraces play, rhythm, and drama, balancing catharsis and restraint, experimentation, and immediacy. Themes of anti-capitalism, the female experience, spirituality, connection to the earth, and the joy of learning run throughout the record.
The “machines” of the title are not cold or distant, but tools for freedom - objects to be played with rather than obeyed.
The process of making Plays Machines felt, by Betsy’s own account, like a rebirth. Rejecting genre limitations, she allowed herself to experiment with voice, persona, structure, and texture, guided by a single mantra: no rules. In a culture obsessed with outcomes, Tomorrow Woman instead centres presence - the radical act of enjoying creation for its own sake.
Tomorrow Woman’s debut EP Plays Machines will be released on May 1 2026. The record was mixed by Saguiv Rosenstock (YHWH Nailgun) and mastered by Heba Kadry (Björk, Blood Orange).
A statement of intent, it introduces a project grounded in movement, curiosity, and the freedom that comes from starting at zero.
At its core, Tomorrow Woman is a meditation on renewal - the belief that every day offers the possibility of transformation within oneself, and the freedom that comes from starting at zero. In a world defined by chaos and uncertainty, where being human is a statement on its own, Tomorrow Woman finds a reason to begin again, reminding us why we make art in the first place.
