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." 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." false 2025-11-08 07:21:09 Kill for Love 2012 2012-05-28 2012-05-28 78 Electronic Synth-Pop 111688 2114118 e419b2dd-5b44-4935-a920-905ddea2b0c7 c89ea689-c053-4d97-bada-8b81a6236f58 c2ecdec7-d970-4fbe-bb72-7edb92939fcf /media/data/media4/Music/Chromatics/Kill for Love/folder.jpg Chromatics Chromatics 1 1 Into the Black 05:22 1 2 Kill for Love 03:57 1 3 Back From the Grave 03:42 1 4 The Page 03:36 1 5 Lady 05:08 1 6 These Streets Will Never Look the Same 08:36 1 7 Broken Mirrors 07:03 1 8 Candy 02:30 1 9 The Eleventh Hour 03:28 1 10 Running From the Sun 07:06 1 11 Dust to Dust 02:40 1 12 Birds of Paradise 04:26 1 13 A Matter of Time 05:06 1 14 At Your Door 03:52 1 15 There's a Light Out on the Horizon 04:44 1 16 The River 06:09 Chromatics were an American electronic music band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2001. The band's final line-up consisted of Ruth Radelet (vocals, guitar, synthesizer), Adam Miller (guitar, vocoder), Nat Walker (drums, synthesizer), and Johnny Jewel (producer, multi-instrumentalist). The band originally featured a trademark sound indebted to punk and lo-fi that was described as "noisy" and "chaotic". After numerous lineup changes, which left guitarist Adam Miller as the sole original member, the band began releasing material on the Italians Do It Better record label in 2007, with their style streamlined into an Italo disco-influenced sound. Their third album Night Drive (2007) was met with critical acclaim, as was their fourth album, Kill for Love, which was released on March 26, 2012. Several of the band's songs have been featured in television series such as Bates Motel, Gossip Girl, Mr. Robot, The Mindy Project, Parenthood, Revenge, Riverdale, 13 Reasons Why, The 100, Baby, and Twin Peaks, as well as being featured in the films Drive (2011), Taken 2 (2012), Only You (2018), and The Perfection (2019). In December 2014, the band announced what would have been their fifth studio album, titled Dear Tommy. While Chromatics have released a number of singles from it, Dear Tommy had yet to be released when they instead issued the album Closer to Grey in October 2019. The band announced its break-up in August 2021.