Last year, Chromatics released their new album Closer to Grey. The album was dubbed the band’s “seventh” album. Their 2012 album Kill for Love was their fifth, and, with a new announcement today, it looks like Johnny Jewel just might finally release the album he’s been teasing for over five years: Dear Tommy.
Tonight, a new tracklist for Dear Tommy has been revealed. The album features unheard versions of the three songs that have been previously released (“Just Like You,” “Dear Tommy,” and “Time Rider”). Every other song is thus far unreleased. Find the tracklist below. Dear Tommy still doesn’t have an official release date.
A Johnny Jewel–directed video for a new song called “Teacher” has also been shared. Watch it below.
The Dear Tommy timeline stretches back for over half a decade. The album was first announced in December 2014 with the promise that it would arrive in the coming months. Several songs from the album’s first tracklist were promised in the years following the initial announcement.
Then, in 2017, it was announced that the album had been scrapped entirely. Jewel’s manager at the time claimed that Jewel had destroyed every physical copy of Dear Tommy after going through a near-death experience. It was also claimed that Jewel completely re-recorded the project. At one point, Dear Tommy was given a fall 2018 release date.
In addition to Closer to Grey and the individual singles from Dear Tommy, Johnny Jewel has been busy working on the upcoming Desire album. He also helped soundtrack David Lynch’s most recent season of Twin Peaks. Recently, Johnny Jewel shared an Angel Olsen remix.
Revisit Pitchfork’s 2015 feature “Into the Black: Johnny Jewel’s Dark Disco Empire.”
Dear Tommy:
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
