Kill for Love

Kill for Love is the fourth studio album by American electronic music band Chromatics, released on March 26, 2012 by Italians Do It Better. On May 7, 2012, a drumless version of the album, containing eleven songs with no percussion, was made available by the band for free download. Kill for Love received general acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 18 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews". Allmusic critic K. Ross Hoffman wrote the album "maintains an impressively high level of quality and and emotional resonance throughout", adding that "just about everything" on the album is "inarguably effective, and starkly beautiful in its simplicity". Sean Adams of Drowned in Sound opined that, compared to the Drive soundtrack, Kill for Love is "oh-so much more than that, both in terms of scale and ambition, as well as how it plays with time and rich textures. This is a modern masterpiece, it's as simple as that." Andrew Graham of The Phoenix stated that "Ruth Radelet's detached, lethargic vocals ache with implicit longing [...] Adam Miller's guitars still echo—without imitating—Joy Division and New Order, and Johnny Jewel's trademark retro-futuro-electro production sound underpins this 16-track set with a dreamy, after-the-afterparty atmosphere that feels like it could go on all night long."