The chills
The Chills are a New Zealand indie rock band and a typical representative of the Dunedin sound .
history
The Chills were founded in October 1980 in Dunedin (New Zealand). Founding members were Martin Phillipps ( guitar , vocals ), Peter Gutteridge (guitar, vocals), Alan Haig ( drums ), Jane Dodd ( bass ) and Rachel Phillipps ( keyboard ). In the years up to 1992 the band had 14 different line-ups . The only constant member of the band was Martin Phillipps.
The music of the chills was published by the New Zealand label Flying Nun Records . The band played various singles from 1982 on, before they recorded their first album Brave Worlds (produced by Mayo Thompson ) in 1987 , followed by Submarine Bells in 1990 . After the release of the 1992 album Soft Bomb , the band split, but came back together in 1996 and 2003 to record the album Sunburnt and the EP Stand By .
The biggest hits of the chills were the songs I Love My Leather Jacket and Heavenly Pop Hit , which both reached the top 5 of the New Zealand charts . The two albums Submarine Bells and Soft Bomb also made it into the New Zealand Top 5 . Outside of their home country, the band had no chart successes. In Germany, the chills had a stable fan base in the second half of the 1980s. The Frankfurt radio DJ Klaus Walter played the band regularly in his program Der Ball ist rund . The most famous piece of music by the Chills in Germany was the song Pink Frost .
On September 14, 2018, The Chills' sixth album, Snow Bound, was released. The radio station ByteFM called the first single Complex a “bittersweet piece of outsider pop”, while the second pre-release single Lord Of All I Survey sounded “in its solemnity like a crossover of Irish traditional and Christmas carol”.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 NZ
|
|||
| 1986 | Kaleidoscope World |
NZ19 (11 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1988 | Brave World |
NZ24 (4 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1990 | Submarine Bells |
NZ1 (14 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1992 | Soft bomb |
NZ3 (11 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1994 | Heavenly Pop Hits - The Best of the Chills |
NZ24 (8 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1996 | Sunburnt |
NZ25 (2 weeks) NZ |
with Martin Phillipps
|
| 2015 | Silver Bullets |
NZ12 (2 weeks) NZ |
|
| 2018 | Snow Bound |
NZ9 (2 weeks) NZ |
More albums
- Sketchbook (1999, Demos [3] / unpublished items [14] by Martin Phillipps 1985–1994)
- Secret Box (2000, The Chills Rarities, 1980–2000), limited to a total of 1,000 pieces (500 of them with autograph)
- Somewhere Beautiful (2013)
EPs
- Dunedin Double (1981, compilation with four bands from Dunedin: The Chills, Sneaky Feelings , The Stones , The Verlaines )
- Stand By (2004)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
|
NZ
|
|||
| 1982 | Rolling moon |
NZ26 (2 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1984 | Pink Frost |
NZ17 (18 weeks) NZ |
|
| Doledrums |
NZ12 (9 weeks) NZ |
||
| 1985 | The Lost EP |
NZ4 (17 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1987 | I Love My Leather Jacket |
NZ4 (11 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1990 | Heavenly Pop Hit |
NZ2 (7 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1992 | Male Monster from the Id |
NZ8 (7 weeks) NZ |
|
| 1996 | Come home |
NZ33 (1 week) NZ |
with Martin Phillipps
|
More singles
- I'll Only See You Alone Again (1986)
- House with a Hundred Rooms (1987)
- Wet Blanket (1988)
- Part Past Part Fiction (1990)
- Drug Magicians (1990)
- Double Summer (1992)
- Surrounded (1996)
- Dreams Are Free (Martin Phillipps & the Chills, 1996)
- Molten Gold (2013)
swell
- ↑ http://www.discogs.com/artist/Chills,+The (accessed April 6, 2012)
- ↑ Indie pioneers The Chills release two new songs - ByteFM Blog. Retrieved on July 5, 2018 (German).
- ↑ a b Chart discography New Zealand