Kill For Love shows that synth/dream/chill/call-it-what-you will pop can be as visceral as rock; the synth as driven and nuanced as the guitar, perhaps more so.
These opening six songs are as good as it gets, and if there were four or five more, this would be the album of the year, for sure.
The album is such an entirely immersive experience from the beginning to the end that it seems somehow inappropriate to assert the superiority of one track over another.
With Kill For Love, it almost feels like the man’s true thesis, as if he’s strung together all his ideas, feelings, and sounds into one colossal being that acts less like an album and more like a highly organized archive.
It'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.
Kill for Love‘s pop numbers are leaps and bounds better than almost anything else released this year, and when the album pulls away from them, it can’t help but lose quite a bit of its strength.
With a clear opening and finale, upbeat moments and downbeat ones, romance, tragedy, and plot twists, Kill for Love feels less like an album and more like a feature film.
Kill for Love is a heavy-hearted but eternally romantic midnight road movie for the mind that’ll haunt you long after those taillights fade.
Kill For Love matures with each listen, and there’s enough craftsmanship at work to more than compensate for the more listless moments.
On Kill, the tracks blend together into a flat, echo-drenched concoction of Radelet’s blank Nico croon and guitars borrowed from The Cure’s Disintegration
An excellent display of synthpop tracks and ethereal soundscapes to keep you interested over its long runtime. Great synth record.
Synthwave/dream pop, neon lights and dreamy is my favorite type of music. And kill for love fits the aesthetic so well I’m just blown and in ecstasy.
Too many songs are long-winded and boring, the vocals are very flat on a lot of tracks and this just isn't all that interesting of an album. Definitely disappointing.
En su parte media y final abundan los temas meramente atmosféricos. Una pena porque el comienzo del disco es tremendo.
I don't know, man. I like some Chromatics stuff but there are just other artists out there that are doing the same thing but better. Also yeah, way too long.
Favorite Tracks: Into the Black
Least Favorite Tracks: These Streets Will Never Look the Same, Broken Mirrors, The Eleventh Hour, Running From The Sun, A Matter of Time
Rating: 5.0 (Mediocre)
1 | Into the Black 5:22 | 92 |
2 | Kill for Love 3:57 | 84 |
3 | Back from the Grave 3:42 | 83 |
4 | The Page 3:36 | 88 |
5 | Lady 5:08 | 84 |
6 | These Streets Will Never Look the Same 8:36 | 89 |
7 | Broken Mirrors 7:03 | 77 |
8 | Candy 2:30 | 82 |
9 | The Eleventh Hour 3:28 | 79 |
10 | Running From the Sun 7:06 | 79 |
11 | Dust To Dust 2:40 | 84 |
12 | Birds of Paradise 4:26 | 86 |
13 | A Matter of Time 5:06 | 79 |
14 | At Your Door 3:52 | 83 |
15 | There's a Light Out On the Horizon 4:44 | 81 |
16 | The River 6:09 | 85 |
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