The City Gates - Chimera

3-panel Digipak incl. all lyrics. Eagerly awaited second album on Icy Cold (their 4th in total) by the highly gifted Canadian act based in Montreal! On Chimera The City Gates once again oscillate between melancholic post-punk and rousing cold wave. The album moves through history, unrest, memory, and private collapse with a sense of architecture: basslines locked into grim forward motion, drums pushing the frame, guitars spreading into vast metallic sheets, and synths giving the songs a cold, spectral edge. Chimera feels like a creature assembled from competing impulses: urgency and drift, force and disintegration, intimacy and distance. Lyrically, the album circles isolation, emotional disconnection, distorted memory, and the strange loneliness of modern life. The voice often sits half-buried in the mix, less as confession than transmission, as if these songs are arriving through concrete, static, and old wounds. TCG shared stages with Trisomie 21, Actors, Nothing and many more. (Digipak)

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