Dear Tommy


Dear Tommy is an upcoming studio album by Chromatics, originally scheduled for release in 2018.
Dear Tommy was said to be completed and Chromatics announced the LP in December 2014. The single "Shadow" was released in 2015, including physical copies on vinyl, ahead of the album. By 2015 Chromatics had also shared the tracks "In Films", "Just Like You" and "I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around" on the Internet. However, it was reported in 2017 that Johnny Jewel had destroyed all physical copies of the album in January 2016—15,000 CDs and 10,000 vinyl copies—following a near-death experience while swimming in 2015 and his subsequent desire to improve the songs before release. Those songs already made available from the first version of the record were eventually removed from Internet sources. It is believed that the album was then re-recorded, including previously released songs, and will eventually be released with a changed tracklist from that originally announced.
A representative for Chromatics has said that the Camera EP relates to the album Dear Tommy.
The group's intervening fifth album, Closer to Grey, was released on October 2, 2019, having only been announced the day before.