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 sou