so much ink has been spilled all over the world about this album in the last three years. the crazy thing is, -night drive- as we know it was never meant to be officially released. originally intended only to be the cdr demo version of the incomplete album burned for a handfull of dates in california. that was the end of summer 2007. at that time, chromatics was mostly unknown throughout the world. with only a handfull of bootlegged demos floating through the ethernet, the music was far off the radar of the music industry. no one had any clue what was around the corner. soon the press would get ahold of it, & the album would spread like wildfire overnight. the rough mix was done in portland on a lunar eclipse the night before chromatics left for their first leg of performances with new singer ruth radelet.