Ancient Channels return with Chimera, the first glimpse into Static Spirit, the band’s forthcoming second album and a step deeper into their imagined continuum of past, present, and future. Where their 2020 debut Moments in Ruin traced a hazy, dreamlike vision of post punk, the new material sharpens that aesthetic into something colder and more deliberate.
Chimera captures this shift immediately. Built on a steady, pulse-driven rhythm, the track rides a darkwave undercurrent that seems clenched, and its aggression feels more measured rather than unleashed.
Thematically, the song centers on the exhausting architecture of anger, how it coils, and threatens to spill over in environments engineered to provoke it.
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