Kill for Love

Kill for Love
Studio album by Chromatics
Released March 26, 2012 (2012-03-26)
Genre
Length 77:33
Label Italians Do It Better
Producer Johnny Jewel
Chromatics chronology
In the City
(2010)
Kill for Love
(2012)
Singles from Kill for Love
  1. "These Streets Will Never Look the Same"
    Released: June 23, 2013[4]

Kill for Love is the fourth studio album by American electronic music band Chromatics. It was released on March 26, 2012, by Italians Do It Better. On May 7, 2012, a drumless version of the album, containing 11 songs with no percussion, was made available by the band for free download.[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[7]
The A.V. ClubC+[8]
The Boston Phoenix[9]
Consequence of Sound[10]
Drowned in Sound9/10[11]
NME7/10[12]
Pitchfork8.7/10[1]
PopMatters8/10[13]
Slant Magazine[14]
Spin8/10[15]

Kill for Love received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 80, based on 18 reviews.[6] AllMusic critic K. Ross Hoffman wrote that the album "maintains an impressively high level of quality and emotional resonance throughout", adding that "just about everything" on the album is "inarguably effective, and starkly beautiful in its simplicity".[7] Drowned in Sound's Sean Adams praised its "scale and ambition" and dubbed it "a modern masterpiece",[11] while BBC Music's Alex Denney named it "one of the finest records to surface this year".[16] Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine viewed Kill for Love as "a great tribute to the grueling power of fatigue, an album that turns a dearth of ideas into a virtue."[14]

Marc Hogan of Pitchfork commented that the album "boasts some of the most engrossing synth-pop songs so far this year", adding that "[i]t's not just a collection of hits; it's an album, one that gives the project's familiar nocturnal foreboding a new sense of grandeur."[1] Austin Trunick of Under the Radar noted its "meticulously well thought-out" sequencing and remarked that it "feels less like an album and more like a feature film."[17] Now's Benjamin Boles called the album "strikingly epic" and concluded that "as a more condensed pop album it could also be a strong statement, but the languid pacing and excess of empty space make the perfect frame for the singalongs."[18] In a mixed review, Erik Harvey of The A.V. Club dubbed Kill for Love an "ambitious work", but felt that "the tracks blend together into a flat, echo-drenched concoction of Radelet's blank Nico croon", concluding that "it's probably worth just waiting for the movie [Drive]."[8]

Accolades

Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
AllMusic Best of 2012 28 [19]
BBC Music Top 25 Albums of 2012 18 [20]
Beats Per Minute The Top 50 Albums of 2012 2 [21]
Clash The Top 40 Albums of 2012 29 [22]
Clash The Top 100 Albums of Clash's Lifetime 81 [23]
Consequence of Sound Top 50 Albums of 2012 21 [2]
DIY Albums of 2012 14 [24]
Drowned in Sound Favourite Albums of 2012 3 [25]
Exclaim! Best Albums of 2012 21 [26]
Filter Top 10 of 2012 16 [27]
The Guardian Best Albums of 2012 13 [28]
musicOMH Top 100 Albums of 2012 4 [29]
Pitchfork The Top 50 Albums of 2012 8 [30]
Pitchfork The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014) 44 [31]
Pitchfork The 30 Best Dream Pop Albums 13 [3]
PopMatters The 75 Best Albums of 2012 10 [32]
PopMatters The Best Indie Rock of 2012 1 [33]
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2012 41 [34]
Slant Magazine The 25 Best Albums of 2012 6 [35]
Stereogum Top 50 Albums of 2012 14 [36]
Under the Radar Top 100 Albums of 2012 12 [37]
The Village Voice Pazz & Jop 28 [38]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Into the Black"Neil Young5:23
2."Kill for Love"
3:58
3."Back from the Grave"V3:43
4."The Page"3:36
5."Lady"V5:08
6."These Streets Will Never Look the Same"
  • Miller
  • V
8:37
7."Broken Mirrors"
  • Nat Walker
  • V
7:03
8."Candy"
  • Miller
  • V
2:30
9."The Eleventh Hour"V3:28
10."Running from the Sun"
  • Miller
  • V
7:07
11."Dust to Dust"
  • Miller
  • V
2:41
12."Birds of Paradise"
  • Miller
  • Radelet
  • V
4:26
13."A Matter of Time"V5:06
14."At Your Door"
  • Miller
  • V
3:53
15."There's a Light Out on the Horizon"
  • Walker
  • V
4:44
16."The River"
  • Miller
  • V
6:10
Total length:77:33

Charts

Chart (2012) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[42] 67
Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[42] 32
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[43] 93
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[44] 27
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[45] 4
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[46] 42
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard)[47] 11

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