Chromatics

Pop Matters Best 2012 on Chromatics

#10 Johnny Jewel doesn’t do things by half. Arriving microseconds after his 36-track Symmetry project, Chromatics’ darkly divine Kill for Love took the stage like some futurist-romantic Shakespearian yarn of love, death and everything inbetween. A tragedy written in neon lights, lipstick, tears and rain...full article here

Pretty Much Amazing Best 2012 on Chromatics

#7 Kill for Love is a tome of an album. Like a sweeping russian novel, it seems to exhaust every possible idea before it feels that it has had its say. It’s an inadvisable album format for most musicians but Johnny Jewel seems to revel in a lack of brevity...full article here

Quietus Best 2012 on Chromatics

#41 'Kill For Love' is about those little pieces of you that die when somebody you love isn't around anymore for whatever reason - death, distance or breaking up...full article here

Resident Advisor Best 2012 on Chromatics

#16 When Italians Do It Better torch-bearer Johnny Jewel posted a remastered version of the label's seminal compilation After Dark to his SoundCloud page, it offered a potent reminder of the label's charms...full article here

Slant Best of 2013 on Chromatics

#6 A too-long, wispy ramble of an album, or a brilliant statement on reclamation and decay, exhaustion and inspiration?...full article here

Sputnikmusic on Chromatics

#28 While doing my research for this piece, I unearthed one piece of information which absolutely floored me: that 36 tracks had originally been prepared for Kill For Love...full article here

Stereogum Best of 2012 on Chromatics

#14 Kill For Love (Italians Do It Better)

Treble Best of 2012 on Chromatics

#2 It’s a shame that I can only listen to a song for the first time once. There’s just no way to remember what it was like to hear “Back from the Grave” without anticipating the entrance of the post-punk bassline 51 seconds in, or the crystalized guitar licks at the 1:07 mark...full article here

XLR8R's Best of 2012 on Chromatics

#11 Kill for Love (Italians Do It Better)

Pitchfork Best Albums on Chromatics

Album "Night Drive" scored 8.3

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 ...

Pitchfork Best Albums on Chromatics

Album "Kill for Love" scored 8.7

Chromatics first turned heads with 2007's stunning Night Drive, an album of smokey, neon-noir electro that dropped just as a resurgence of interest in the slow, dreamy dance-pop subgenre known as Ital...