➤CHROMATICS
With their debut album, Night Drive, the four-piece band from Portland, Oregon caused quite a stir presenting us with wonderful melancholic melodies, spheric synth sounds and hypnotic vocals. With a cover of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”, the band simultaneously revealed a closeness as well as a distance to genre-coining musicians. Scattered guitar reverb and deep synth parts are key elements of the new Chromatics record which lead the band to the darker side of Dreampop – and we ’re gladly following them down that path. Seeing one of their acclaimed live performances particularly highlights the bands’ rich sound cosmos. In March 2012, Chromatics released their album Kill For Love, securing their role as a landscape-defining band and earning a place on many publications’ year-end lists, including Pitchfork’s top ten albums of 2012. Gorilla vs. Bear called Kill For Love their number one album of the year. Various songs from Kill For Love would eventually be featured in television shows such as Mr.Robot, Riverdale: Season 1 (Original Television Soundtrack), @Bates Motel, Gossip Girl, Parenthood, and 13 Reasons Why (A Netflix Original Series Soundtrack). Seventh studio album Closer to Grey was released in October 2019.
Links:
Website - www.italiansdoitbetter.com
Facebook - www.facebook.com/CHROMATICSBAND
Twitter - www.twitter.com/chromatics
Instagram - www.instagram.com/chromatics
