The Chills
Snow Bound
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Jan 17, 2019
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The Chills have been on something of a roll since 2015’s bold Silver Bullets, which was swiftly followed by the following year’s deluxe reissue of the suitably titled Kaleidoscope World (1986). Now Martin Phillips’ crew appears to have crafted the most light-hearted, optimistic of the legendary Dunedin, New Zealand band’s recent line-up offerings.
Crash-bang indie-pop numbers like “Bad Sugar,” “Time to Atone,” and the snappy title track call to mind the influence the band holds over artists like The Goon Sax and RVG, while more meditative, ornate tunes like “The Greatest Guide” (with a brief but lovely trademark wordless refrain) and “Deep Belief” briefly recall the glory of “Submarine Bells” or “Part Past Part Fiction.”
It’s an inconsistent album, with some songs slipping by in a swirl of sameness but there is enough here from a heartfelt and unique creative mind to keep interested in the band at a renewed and deserved high. (www.thechills.band)
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January 19th 2019
5:51am
Now Martin Phillips’ crew appears to have crafted the most light-hearted, optimistic of the legendary Dunedin, New Zealand band’s recent line-up offerings.
March 19th 2019
11:02am
In his sixth decade, the Chills’ Martin Phillipps sounds this note of wary optimism. “Even bad sugar makes bitter taste sweet” goes the first chorus of Snow Bound, his classic New Zealand pop band’s sixth album in thirty years, barely a minute in.
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