"The Fader" mentioned, "Maybe "Kill for Love" will inaugurate a sea change where artists come to terms with themselves and start being open about how they sound when they sing. In basement studios everywhere, young vocalists will blink three times and start x-ing out effects in Ableton, look at the mirror for the first time in weeks, deep into their beady, sun-deprived eyes and whisper, "God, there are no shortcuts... "Kill for Love" continues the band's penchant for popular-sound defiance that made Chromatics so exciting in the first place."