Night Drive (album)
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| Studio album by Chromatics | ||||
| Released | August 28, 2007 | |||
| Recorded | Summer 2007 | |||
| Genre | Italo disco, electro, synth-pop | |||
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58:08 (Original) 79:33 (Deluxe Edition) |
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| Label | Italians Do It Better | |||
| Producer | Johnny Jewel | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| The Boston Phoenix | |
| Pitchfork | 8.3/10 |
| Resident Advisor | 4/5 |
| Spin | |
| Stylus Magazine | C+ |
Night Drive (alternatively known as Original Motion Picture Soundtrack IV) is the third studio album by Chromatics, released on August 28, 2007 on the Italians Do It Better record label. The label reissued an analogue remaster of the album as a "Deluxe Edition" in 2010, on both CD and double LP formats. A limited print run of the double LP was pressed on colored vinyl: blue for Sides A and B, and red for Sides C and D. The "Deluxe Edition" restores five tracks that had originally constituted Side D of the album, but had been scrapped before the original 2007 release date due to technical problems and time constraints.
With this album, Chromatics made a drastic departure from their previously punk sound, as they pursued a new direction reminiscent of Italo disco. It is the first full-length Chromatics album to feature singer Ruth Radelet, Drummer Nat Walker, and multi-instrumentalist Johnny Jewel. Only guitarist Adam Miller had been featured on the band's previous LPs.
The album's title may be a reference to a 1985 single ("Night Drive"/"Time Space Transmat") by Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins.
Opening track "The Telephone Call" contains samples from "Lady Operator" by Mirage and from Chromatics' own tracks "The Killing Spree" and "Let's Make This A Moment To Remember." It sketches out a plot involving a female protagonist who, after spending an evening at a nightclub, is about to drive home to meet her boyfriend. It ends with a sample of a car driving off, and then segues into the title track. Accordingly, these opening two tracks, along with album closer "Accelerator," suggest that the album may be a concept album about a late night drive.
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