Chromatics, a lo-fi electropop band based out of Oregon, have released Kill For Love, an album of synth based gems stemming from the mind of multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel. The album opens with a haunting cover of Neil Young's timeless classic, "Hey Hey My My (Into the Black)." The electro sound is far more subtle in this song than the rest of the album, but it familiarizes the listener to vocalist Ruth Radelet's elegiac voice, which, when blanketed with Jewel's heavy reverb backdrops, sounds immediately warm and inviting. From there, Kill For Love spills into several different indie rock styles, with instrumentation that emphasized Radelet's singing, and vice versa. The commercial highlights of Kill For Love are the heavy electro tunes, which, with their breaks and synthy glitches, are almost danceable. As the album progresses, however, the album becomes darker and more abstract. The same sounds are their, but Jewel uses ambiance to create a more ominous, spacial, sound. Jewel also uses extremely avante-garde interludes to further enhance the pop songs, and to augment the shadowy mood of the album.
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