Chromatics - Kill for Love (2012) [FLAC] - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Kill for Love

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Studio album by Chromatics

Released

March 26, 2012

Genre

Synth-pop

Length

77:35

Label

Italians Do It Better

Producer

Johnny Jewel

Chromatics chronology

In the City

(2010)

Kill for Love

(2012)

Dear Tommy

(2017)

Singles from Kill for Love

1. "These Streets Will Never Look the Same"

Released: June 23, 2013

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 11 songs with no percussion, was made available by the band for free download.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings

Aggregate scores

Source

Rating

Metacritic

80/100

Review scores

Source

Rating

AllMusic

The A.V. Club

C+

The Boston Phoenix

Consequence of Sound

A−

Drowned in Sound

9/10

NME

7/10

Pitchfork

8.7/10

PopMatters

8/10

Slant Magazine

Spin

8/10

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. 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". Drowned in Sound's Sean Adams praised its "scale and ambition" and dubbed it "a modern masterpiece", while BBC Music's Alex Denney named it "one of the finest records to surface this year". 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." Rowan Savage of Tiny Mix Tapes felt that the band had avoided "the slavish pastiche all too common in our retromaniac era", praising the album as "entirely novel yet instantly recognizable."

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." 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." 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." 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]."

Accolades

Publication

List

Rank

AllMusic

Best of 2012

28

BBC Music

Top 25 Albums of 2012

18

Clash

The Top 40 Albums of 2012

29

The Top 100 Albums of Clash's Lifetime

81

Consequence of Sound

Top 50 Albums of 2012

21

DIY

Albums of 2012

14

Drowned in Sound

Favourite Albums of 2012

3

Exclaim!

Best Albums of 2012

21

Filter

Top 10 of 2012

16

The Guardian

Best Albums of 2012

13

musicOMH

Top 100 Albums of 2012

4

Pitchfork

The Top 50 Albums of 2012

8

The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014)

44

PopMatters

The 75 Best Albums of 2012

10

The Quietus

Albums of the Year 2012

41

Slant Magazine

The 25 Best Albums of 2012

6

Stereogum

Top 50 Albums of 2012

14

Under the Radar

Top 100 Albums of 2012

12

The Village Voice

Pazz & Jop

28

Charts

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Chart (2012)

Peak

position

Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

67

Belgian Alternative Albums (Ultratop Flanders)

32

Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)

93

Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)

27

US Independent Albums (_Billboard_)

42

US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (_Billboard_)

11

US Top Heatseekers Albums (_Billboard_)

4

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