While we continue to wait on Chromatics to finish their long-in-the-works Dear Tommy, they’ll release an entirely different album tomorrow. It’s titled Closer to Grey, will be out via Italians Do It ...

The Good: Some may argue that with this album, Chromatics have completely left behind their original punk, lo-fi, noisy, chaotic sound and instead grown into their “Italo-Disco”-influenced sound of ...

It has been a long, long time since the Chromatics came out with an album. A little more than seven years ago, the bleary, cinematic synthpop atmosphere-conjurers released their grand, moving opus ...

Johnny Jewel has been clearing out the Italians Do It Better vaults recently, releasing some stray Chromatics and solo tracks over the past few weeks. He’s just dropped two more: a 31-minute solo ...

According to producer Johnny Jewel, “Music is medicine.” Or at least that’s what the sparse statement that came with the band’s surprise release says. On Tuesday at midnight, Chromatics unveiled ...

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 ...

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.

In December of 2014, Chromatics announced a new album called Dear Tommy. That album has not been released yet. In fact, the group has released another album, Closer To Grey, since then. Dear Tommy has ...

Chromatics at Radio City last month (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Chromatics have also released a drumless version of Kill For Love. Here’s what Johnny Jewel told Pitchfork about the album: It’s ...

In December 2014, Chromatics announced that their fifth album, Dear Tommy, would be released the following Valentine's Day. It made perfect sense that the world's foremost purveyors of highly stylized ...

Chromatics have been teasing a new album called “Dear Tommy” for nearly seven years now. It’s been quite the roller coaster. At one point after a near-death experience, the band’s co-founder, Johnny ...