Although they've probably got enough online hype working for them without pulling mine own head out of mine own arse to rave about them again, it would be difficult to overstate the new Chromatics album. Among the standout tracks on Night Drive is a cover of one the best songs ever, Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill". While it would impossible to outdo the vocal histrionics of the original, Chromatics make good by doing what they do to everything, smoothing things down to a somnambulist tempo and add the loving touch of italo disco. This signature style owes much to the hand of Johnny Jewel (in-house producer for Mike Simonetti's Italians Do It Better label and white deep v wearer). This aesthetic seems to be winning many converts recently: making inroads to the traditional indie community with the recent label comp After Dark, while also getting charted by many notable house & disco DJs. Chromatics' "In The City" even found it's way onto Dixon's outstanding Body Language Vol.4 mix from earlier this year.




Tonight, if I had a car, I would be taking my own dreamy disco night drive along to this...


Chromatics - Running Up That Hill