Work on what would become Chronica was begun in early 2016 and continued over a year-and-a-half of intermittent sessions in Sheffield with producer/engineer Alan Smyth, during which The Scaramanga Six wrote and recorded enough material to consider releasing a double album.

Having decided to make this commitment, the band then opened up the funding arrangements to their fanbase as their second PledgeMusic project (following 2015's The Terrifying Dream), including download, CD and vinyl releases.

"[1] Writing in Classic Rock, Kris Needs hailed Chronica as "a colossal undertaking from outside the mainstream well worth investigation" and noted "prone to big riffs with sudden detours, there are shades of Bowie and Hammill in the animated narrative which often find themselves abseiling over episodic, prog-like bombast, maybe tickling modern Marillion's testicles before uncorking something bigger of their own devising.Controlled dynamite outbursts like 'This is Chronica' with its strident Mick Ronson-style guitar, or sinister monologue 'A Cold One at Wits' End' fly relentless invention with subtle humour, thus preventing such complex words and music flying up Muse's cosmic poop chute.

Yes, The Scarras have created a world to tell their stories, but the big picture they want reveal is one full of the insignificances we encounter every day...

And yet it's not, these tracks, split across two discs of ever shifting landscapes and trivialities that make the world go round, being honed, crafted and precise.

Highlights don't just come thick and fast, they rush at you as though you're the main character in an action movie made of plasticine and dynamite...

The superb production allows the crazy to sound cohesive and the pace at which you're presented ideas that remind of everything from Buffalo Tom and Hüsker Dü to The Dead Kennedys and The Cardiacs via XTC and King Crimson to The Knack and Abba, to simply be The Scaramanga Six.