While Chromatics‘ new album Dear Tommy, is still TBA (MIA?), the band are releasing singles on a pretty regular basis. We got “Shadow” back in September and now comes a new one, a cover of Cyndi ...

Sometimes it’s better just to move on. Chromatics‘ Johnny Jewel was apparently all set to release Dear Tommy, the group’s follow-up to 2012’s Kill for Love, back in 2015 but, the story goes, he ...

Veteran indie-pop group Chromatics is back after seven years of silence: The band surprise-released their new studio album Closer To Grey, their first album since 2012’s Kill For Love, on Wednesday.

Like labelmates Glass Candy, the Chromatics recently ditched their early aggro/noise-punk beginnings. Switching labels from the art-rock institution Troubleman Unlimited to the sleeker Italians Do It ...

Shortly after Chromatics announced their official break-up last year, singer Ruth Radelet delivered a gorgeous cover of Elliott Smith’s “Twilight,” effectively marking the beginning of her newfound ...

At the end of the decade, the shadow left by Chromatics’ inimitable output feels hard to overstate. The trio’s widescreen, darkly-lit brand of Italo disco has lingered, influencing everyone from ...

The music of Chromatics is violently pretty. Once Jewel became a full time band member, things began to change. The dangerous, and unnerving nature of Chromatics remained constant throughout, but by ...

Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on Email Share on Bluesky Five years later, Kill For Love took that nocturnal sound and made it more accessible and epic in turn. The latter could not have ...

Red-on-black alarm-clock digits anticipated Chromatics’ arrival on the Park West stage Friday night. The stark aesthetic of that introductory “Tick of the Clock” mirrored the strangely ...

Chromatics' first album since 2007's stunning Night Drive is a 90-minute tour-de-force that gives their nocturnal foreboding a new sense of grandeur. Though long, Kill for Love is lushly atmospheric ...