i'm always so ambivalent about chromatics. can never get through more than a handful of their songs at once because the derivativeness and sameness, purposeful muting of certain things mounts and starts to feel deafening/stifling, but there's a stable of songs of theirs i treat like singles, once in a while pulling out and getting into ("hands in the dark", "i want your love", the first part of "these streets will never look the same"...). i guess today it's this one. and they love a lot of the songs i do ("i'm on fire", "running up that hill", "blue moon", etc.), but eh i just don't know. very push-pull attraction i have with them.
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