Dear Tommy is the unreleased sixth studio album by Chromatics, originally scheduled for release on Valentine's Day 2015, then 2018.

[9][10] However, it was reported in 2017 that Johnny Jewel had destroyed all physical copies of the album in January 2016[11]—15,000 CDs and 10,000 vinyl copies—following a near-death experience while swimming in 2015[2][3][5][12][13] and his subsequent desire to improve the songs before release.

[14] The group's intervening fifth album, Closer to Grey, was released on October 2, 2019, having only been announced the day before.

[19] In December 2021, following the band's split, Pitchfork reported that Jewel's story of the destruction of the entire print run of Dear Tommy in 2016 was disputed by multiple parties close to the band, including by the CD and vinyl pressing plants that would have been contracted by Italians Do It Better to print those copies at the time.

"[25] Rolling Stone concluded "it's possible that the band may one day release a completed Dear Tommy.