Pink Chameleons first appeared here in January and now fill one of the end-of-the-year slots with ‘Sunshine Honey’, a single and track from their second album ‘Harmony’, which will drop at the end of January.
‘Harmony’ was recorded at Altai Studios, which is owned by the band 22-pistepirkko, and which is built in the cellar of an old movie house.
Having recorded a punk-oriented debut album, ‘Peace and Love’ (that just has to be a punk title, doesn’t it, Ringo?), the Chameleons have shape shifted increasingly in the direction of psych, which was evident on ‘Colors seem to fade’, the track we ran the rule over back in January, and which I described as “drags me right back to the sixties, San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, counterculture ‘n all…it could be a line out of ‘A whiter shade of pale’”.
According to the Press Release,” the overall sound of Harmony is dominated by mellotron, hypnotic tremolo and electric sitar along with repetitive bass riffs and percussion”, which is as psych as you get.
But ‘Sunshine Honey’ seems to be intended as a sort of psych-lite event, more in the way of psych pop and intended perhaps for the younger end of the audience spectrum with the schools closed and the kiddies filling in time until Santa arrives.
“A happy song for dark times”, they say.
The video that accompanies the song certainly suggests that; the Pink Chameleons being represented by characters that are finger puppets made out of socks, engaging in a psych Christmas Party. Even the title suggests a breakfast cereal full of vitamins and riboflavin.
It’s Christmas. Enjoy!.
‘Harmony’ is released via Soliti Recordings on the 31st January 2025
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Filming and editing: Paltsa-Kai Salama
Puppets and puppetry: Krista Salama
Album sleeve photo by Pertti Raami.
