Tag Archives: Chromatics
Music by Bergman: Desire
Desire’s self-titled debut is a smouldering ache — saturnine synthesized pop about heartbreak & infinite longing, late nights by the telephone & break-up letters smeared by tears.
Johnny Jewel discovered singer Megan Louise performing at a club in Montreal. So transfixed was he by her voice that he elected to mirror his Portland Suite 304 studio and create a second recording room in Quebec. With the addition of Jewel’s longtime collaborator Nat Walker (Chromatics, Symmetry) on drums & synthesizer, the part-American, part-French Canadian band was born.
Desire is melancholic pop grandeur — the soundtrack to new love that feels like the end of the world. Desire, just one of the many italo-leaning dream pop acts featured on Johnny Jewel’s Italians Do It Better label, have shared ‘Tears From Heaven’, their first new single in nine years.
Hit of the week: Chromatics ‘Black Walls’
Few albums have left music fans in as much suspense as Chromatics’ long-awaited Dear Tommy. The record was originally announced in 2014, with a handful of cuts from the 17-song tracklist — “Just Like You”, “Shadow”, “In Films”, and “I Can Never Be Myself When You’re Around” — having been shared over the intervening years.
Now, finally, it seems Jewel may have a version of the album he’s happy enough with to share with the rest of the world. A sparsely written press release has dated Dear Tommyfor a fall 2018 release from Italians Do It Better. To add more credence to the possibility this is for real, Chromatics have shared a new single called “Black Walls”. “Black Walls” is a beating, slinking track filled with tight mystery that opens wide with climbing synths
The muses of La Musa: Brigitte Laverne
La barcelonina Brigitte Laverne sorprenia a tothom ara fa tres anys amb un EP debut el so del qual estava amarat d’influències synth-pop que anaven des de la banda sonora de ‘Drive’ a noms com Giorgo Moroder o Chromatics.
Laverne estrena ara el primer tastet del seu primer disc, que sortità properament a través de Club Ruido i s’ha gravat en els estudis Red Bull Music Academy d’Amsterdam. ‘Crush on You’ és el primer single.
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Les versions d’il Dottore: Chromatics “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”
Il Dottore ens regala una altra versió molt actual. Una de les nostres bandes preferides s’ha atrevit a versionar la famosa cançó de Cindy Lauper “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”. Chromatics que estan a punt de treure nous disc, l’esperadíssim “Dear Tommy” van versionar aquesta cançó per un anunci de la marca Mango protagonitzat per les models Kate Moss i Carla Delevigne. La banda de Johnny Jewell embolcalla la cançó en un halo d’hipnòtic dream-pop.