Following the triumphant and invigorating year that Manchester’s celebrated post-punk legends had in 2024, The Chameleons are continuing their revved up momentum with the announcement that their new album, Arctic Moon, will be released on September 12th via Metropolis Records. Accompanying the release of Arctic Moon is the announcement of a Fall tour to promote the album. Once the tour supporting The Psychedelic Furs in the Summer concludes in mid July, the band will return to North America a month later to support Arctic Moon. Starting in Seattle on September 26th, the tour hugs the West Coast featuring dates in Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles, before winding down in Phoenix.

“Our new album Arctic Moon is finally finished and everything is being prepared for its release in mid-September. There’s an obvious maturity to the songwriting on this record. Those that are familiar with our past work will hear that this is a positive step forward in that respect. We’re all really pleased with how the album has turned out and we’re really looking forward to the challenge of performing songs from the new album live later this year when we begin the Arctic Moon Tour. For the first time, we’ve been able to use real orchestral strings on a couple the songs, which were arranged and performed by Pete Whitfield at Real Strings in Manchester. They’ve given these songs a truly epic quality, and we can’t wait to perform them live. Danny [Ashberry], our keyboard player, is going to need all his skill to help bring this epic quality to the stage and we have every confidence that he can!” (bassist & vocalist Mark Burgess)

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