This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Bicep: CHROMA 000 (CHROMA)
If you’ve just started reading, welcome to the list of my 20 favourite electronic music albums of 2025. My Top 20 Bangers. You are welcome here. Just make sure you use a coaster, and stick to using the downstairs toilet unless you’re having a number two. Next on my list: Bicep.
Nearly two years ago, Bicep launched Chroma. It’s stylised in capital letters, but I can’t be doing with that kind of nonsense. Chroma was designed to be a record label, an event series, an audiovisual show, a dry cleaners, a cure to trenchfoot and my drag name. Well. Some of those, anyway.
The music side of Chroma displayed Bicep’s club chops. For example, Chroma 001 Helium, released in January 2024, sounded like a usual catchy Bicep track after it has been shoved into a swamp by a particularly angry crocodile. Snappy stuff.
So here are all the Chroma tracks gathered onto one album. There’s the exhaust-fumed fast pace of Chroma 002 LAVA, the reactionary clamour of Chroma 04 Rola, the sad-emoji breaks and arpeggio redemption of Chroma 005 ALOE, and the uncompromising mechanical samba of Chroma 009 KR36.
It might be the case that Bicep have sacrificed some of their emotion in favour of, as cool clubs kids would say, dropping a phat one. But I love it when my favourite artists step out of their comfort zone, even if they do choose track titles so obtuse, you might think they’re selling Ikea furniture. And yeah, that’s Ikea not IKEA. I told you. I’m not having it.
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