listen to the three new songs from the EP “Where Are You?” which anticipates the new album 23 years after the last album

Comeback time for the historic bands of British new wave. After Matt Johnson's The The, who returned to release a new song after a quarter of a century, it is now up to the Chameleons to raise the curtain on their music after 23 years of inactivity. The formation led by Mark Burgess has in fact released the EP “Where Are You?”, an appetizer for the upcoming new “Arctic Moon”, their first album since “Why Call It Anything?” of 2001.
Stream the three new songs below.

“It's exciting to finally be able to release new Chameleons material for the first time in over twenty years, even if it was tiring at the beginning – commented Burgess, singer and bassist of the Manchester post-punk band, interviewed by Stereogum – The request to make new music is the one I've been asked most often by concertgoers, many of whom weren't even born when our records were originally made. When we got through Covid, Reg (Smithies, guitarist, ed) and I had a very solid band, people we trusted to get the best out of whatever idea we were able to give birth to – explains the leader – So for the first time since the death of John Lever (the drummer, ed) and since Dave Fielding's departure, I felt we were back to being a real band, capable of creating interesting and exciting music.”

The EP consists of 3 songs, “Where Are You?”, “Endfully Falling” and “Forever”, which will all be included on “Arctic Moon”. The album, however, does not yet have a release date. “Right now we're halfway through, but everyone in the band is already excited about what they're hearing,” Burgess said. “We've managed to transcend the boundaries of our heritage and finally create something new.”
Meanwhile, the “Script Of The Bridge” lineup is preparing to tour the United States to celebrate another important chapter in its discography, 1986's “Strange Times”. In this regard, Burgess explained: “Initially I wasn't very enthusiastic about single-album tours, I believed they should be limited to special, one-off events. The live performance of 'Strange Times' changed my mind. both in sound and writing. And it's a challenging album to perform live and therefore much more fun to play.