The band behind 'Twin Peaks' musical sound has a surprise new album
In both visually striking instances, Chromatics’ detached, 1980s-suggestive electronic tones underscored similarly elusive narratives. It makes sense that the group’s music has been in heavy rotation on runways during fashion week.
“Closer to Grey” opens with a cover of Paul Simon’s “Sound of Silence.” Each line is laid bare by singer Ruth Radelet. The opposite of a belting diva, Radelet expresses emotion via inside-voice restraint and a Sade-esque sense of phrasing. That the album opens with the line, “Hello darkness my old friend / I’ve come to talk to you again” is telling. Guided by a sparse bass line, a slow, thumpy bottom-end kickdrum and synth-generated cosmic twinkles in the midrange, Chromatics’ nuanced rendition of “Sound of Silence” serves as a curtain raiser for what the troupe describes in press notes as “a film for your ears.”That’s about all you can glean from the press notes, though.
On “Touch Red,” a distant beat and a few well-chosen keyboard chords offer a monochromatic background onto which Radelet sings, “Touch red, the world needs color.” The shock of luminosity is jarring. Like a rose blossoming in a field blackened by wildfire, it’s one of many moments on the record that capture in equal measure both beauty and bleakness.
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