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Jun 7, 2012Kill for Love is also one of the finest records to surface this year.
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Apr 25, 2012It's not quite a masterpiece, but its successes are both grand and numerous enough to suggest that the next time Chromatics come around, they'll likely be delivering one.
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May 2, 2012Kill for Love may not be nearly as focused and razor-sharp as Night Drive, but it's twice as much fun and just as confidently personalized--just as purely Chromatics.
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Apr 25, 2012With 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.
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Apr 25, 2012This is a modern masterpiece, it's as simple as that.
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Apr 25, 2012Lacking a clear story arc or point of catharsis, Kill for Love drifts off into its own gorgeous gloom.
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Apr 25, 2012Kill For Love matures with each listen, and there's enough craftsmanship at work to more than compensate for the more listless moments.
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Jun 6, 2012Kill For Love keeps in this spirit, playing with the attention to detail of an art-house movie (and a near 1½-hour running time).
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Jul 24, 2012It's a handsome work, but it really could have done with a bit of judicious editing.
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May 3, 2012If Kill For Love doesn't make you a Chromatics believer, nothing will.
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Apr 25, 2012It'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.
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Apr 25, 2012It's a keeper, a dark passenger for long roads ahead and a heavyweight contender for record of the year.
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May 18, 2012Its power and poise never ceases for 90 wonderful minutes.
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Apr 30, 2012Kill for Love is a great tribute to the grueling power of fatigue, an album that turns a dearth of ideas into a virtue.
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Apr 25, 2012The ambience is fine enough, but it's probably worth just waiting for the movie.
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Apr 25, 2012Johnny Jewel's trademark retro-futuro-electro production sound underpins this 16-track set with a dreamy, after-the-afterparty atmosphere that feels like it could go on all night long.
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Apr 25, 2012This is a sexy album.
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Apr 26, 2012The album [has] a weave and flow that makes incredible sense. 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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 51 out of 57
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Mixed: 4 out of 57
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Negative: 2 out of 57
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Jun 28, 2015
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Jun 11, 2015
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Jan 3, 2013