Showing posts with label The Chills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Chills. Show all posts

Friday, December 25, 2015

Best of 2015- The Album List

Time to round up the best from the year 2015! Not so packed as 2014, but still, it gave birth to some interesting releases. Worth a very special mention to Martin Phillipps' The Chills and The Apartments who returned with first new albums in almost twenty years, both reaching the Top ten on our charts, proving they still got the beat going. Our favorites by far and most listened would be Susanne Sundførs' 'Ten Love Songs' and Tame Impala's 'Currents'. What else was hot? See below...


01. Tame Impala- Currents [Modular/ Interscope]
02. Susanne Sundfør- Ten Love Songs [Kobalt]
03. Viet Cong- Viet Cong [Jagjaguwar/ Flemish Eye]
04. The Apartments- No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal [Microcultures]
05. Belle and Sebastian- Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance [Matador]
06. Julia Holter- Have You in My Wilderness [Domino]
07. The Chills- Silver Bullets [Fire]
08. Dave Gahan & Soulsavers- Angels & Ghosts [Columbia]
09. Lusts- Illuminations [1965]
10. U.S. Girls- Half Free [4AD]

Monday, July 28, 2014

Retrovision: The Chills- Pink Frost

Thirty years ago The Chills released the haunting and atmospheric "Pink Frost". One somewhere said "Creepy beauty from the far south" and I think this is the right sentence to describe this lo-fi, post-punk, goth feel tune. Their biggest and probably most essential hit was recorded in 1982 and this is also where it belongs. This might be the song that defines the band and gives the absolute high water mark in New Zealand's jangle pop history.

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