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 ...

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 ...

There are two versions of the Chromatics. Version number one was a spastic noise-rock band that obliterated basements, toured with the Gossip, and caused a general sense of uneasy chaos in their brief ...

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 ...

Smart production, corrupted sounds and existential dread set Kill for Love’s successor apart from schlockier 80s pop reincarnations Chromatics are among the decade’s defining musical architects – or ...

Before shows like “Glee” and “The Singoff” made it cool to sing in your school’s a cappella group, there was The Chromatics. The group got its start nearly 20 years ago in a rather unlikely place — ...

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 ...

This week boasts plenty of touring acts, including Slayer, The Cult, The Strumbellas and The Killers to name a few. Gorilla vs. Bear hosts its seventh showcase featuring the Chromatics at Granada ...

Chromatics’ new album Kill For Love, their second for the Italians Do It Better label, at first listen surrenders its pleasures readily, all nocturnal, cigarettes-and-tears gothisms stretched over 92 ...

Planetariums tend to have good acoustics. That's something the Chromatics, an a cappella group coming to the North Museum Saturday, learned through the years, bringing science and song together in ...