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The Chills
New Zealand indie rock
Formed in 1980
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The Chills are a New Zealand indie rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980. The band were fronted by founding mainstay singer-songwriter, guitarist Martin Phillipps (2 July 1963 – 28 July 2024). During the mid-1990s they were billed as Martin Phillipps & the Chills. Their top ten studio albums in their homeland are Submarine Bells (1990), Soft Bomb (1992), Snow Bound (2018) and Scatterbrain (2021). The Chills were a cult band in other parts of the world as one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin sound. Their top 20 singles are "Pink Frost", "Doledrums" (both 1984), "I Love My Leather Jacket" (1986), "Heavenly Pop Hit" (1990) and "Male Monster from the Id" (1992).
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The Chills est un groupe d'indie pop néo-zélandais, originaire de Dunedin. Il s'agit essentiellement du projet du chanteur compositeur Martin Phillipps, seul membre présent dans le groupe en permanence depuis sa formation. Le groupe a à son actif cinq albums. Il fait partie des groupes fréquemment associés au Dunedin sound.
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Discography
Albums
- 1987 Brave Words
- 1990 Submarine Bells
- 1992 Soft Bomb
- 1996 Sunburnt
- 2015 Silver Bullets
- 2018 Snow Bound
- 2021 Scatterbrain
- 2025 Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs
EPs
- 1982 Dunedin Double EP
- 1985 The “Lost” E.P.
- 2004 Stand By
- 2016 Pyramid / When the Poor Can Reach the Moon
Singles
- 1982 Rolling Moon
- 1984 Doledrums / Hidden Bay
- 1984 Pink Frost / Purple Girl
- 1986 I Love My Leather Jacket / The Great Escape
- 1987 House With a Hundred Rooms
- 1988 Wet Blanket
- 1990 Heavenly Pop Hit
- 1990 Soil X Samples 2
- 1992 Double Summer
- 1992 The Male Monster From the Id
- 1996 Come Home
- 1996 Surrounded
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- 2013 Molten Gold
- 2017 Rocket Science / Lost in Space
- 2017 Conversation Piece
- 2020 You're Immortal
