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What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Rock · 1985 · 10 tracks

What Does Anything Mean? Basically

The Chameleons

A towering monument of melodic post-punk. Shimmering, delay-drenched guitars and icy church keyboards wrap around driving rhythms and existential yearning.

1985 · Statik Records

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A shimmering, cathedral-like melancholy that balances urgent anxiety with beautiful, wistful longing.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Silence, Sea and Sky
2:01
02
Perfume Garden
4:37
03
Intrigue in Tangiers
5:17
04
Return of the Roughnecks
3:27
05
Singing Rule Britannia (While the Walls Close In)
4:18
06
On the Beach
4:11
07
Looking Inwardly
4:29
08
One Flesh
4:29
09
Home Is Where the Heart Is
4:54
10
P.S. Goodbye
4:02
Moments Worth Listening For
The way the instrumental opener Silence, Sea and Sky dissolves into the shimmering, delay-drenched guitar intro of Perfume Garden.
The driving, urgent bassline that anchors the soaring, melancholic guitar lines on Return of the Roughnecks.
The haunting, church-like keyboard chords that swell beneath the urgent vocal delivery of Singing Rule Britannia.
Where This Album DepartsEach spoke is a trait. The orange shape shows where this album pulls away from — or holds to — the rest of the artist’s catalogue. Tap for more.

How does What Does Anything Mean? Basically sound next to the rest of The Chameleons's catalogue?

Cathedral+2.8σ

Cathedral saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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