Last year Chromatics released Closer To Grey, completely omitting the album they’d been years in teasing, Dear Tommy, almost as if they wanted to wipe it from existence. Pictures popping up on their instagram this week showing Ruth Radelet wearing a sweater that reads “The Fuck is Dear Tommy?” only seemed to confirm – but it was a bluff.
Today the enigmatic act have revealed that Dear Tommy is still very much going ahead. While we still don’t have a release date, Chromatics have offered us a statement, the tracklist and a new song called “Teacher”.
Chromatics say:
“The apple obscured in fog is enigmatic & open to the interpretation of the viewer. Are we sinking into the unknown or rising from beyond the grave? An apple a day keeps the doctor away & music is the medicine. Our teachers transfer knowledge of good & evil. From the fairytale of Snow White’s endless sleep to the Garden of Eden in the book of Genesis, exposure is the agent of change. Music is a language communicated by the artist but ultimately defined by the listener’s own exposure to sound throughout their life time. I can’t change my past, but I can choose to break the cycle & not pass the poison apple I was fed to my daughter.”
Listen to “Teacher” below and take a peek at the Dear Tommy track list beneath.
Dear Tommy track list:
01. Fresh Blood
02. Glitter
03. Never Tell
04. Just Like You
05. She Says
06. The Moment
07. Time Rider
08. White Fences
09. Teacher
10. Between The Lines
11. Too Late
12. Dear Tommy
13. Melodrama
14. Ultra Vivid
15. Colorblind
16. Sometimes
17. Dream Sequence
18. Endless Sleep
