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Brand New ~ Sealed! Limited Edition Reissue 2LP Vinyl With Bonus, B-Sides, Demos & Live Tracks, Plus Expanded Gatefold Cover With Photos, Posters & Liner Notes From Journalist Martin Aston. Features “Pink Frost”, “I Love My Leather Jacket” & More.
‘Kaleidoscope World’ is not just the starting point for The Chills, but an insight into the world of New Zealand guitar-pop and the Dunedin Sound an influence which carries on to indie-pop bands around the world today. Originally released in 1986, the compilation captures the best of the magical early period recordings of The Chills and simply oozes excitement and possibility. The worlds first look at The Chills came via the 1982 ‘Dunedin Double’ compilation featuring four acts (The Chills, The Verlaines, Sneaky Feelings and The Stones) all hailed from the New Zealand city in the deep south. Recorded on a portable 4-track it was distinctly lo-fi and in tune with the DIY ethic at the heart of the burgeoning Flying Nun label. It was a sound in part born out of geography and location, with the spaciousness and remoteness of New Zealand itself matched with the glowing songs of chief Chill ~ Martin Phillipps ~ a music savant that somehow wrangles psychedelic pop and folk, Syd Barrett and Brian Wilson, all with Phillipps innate ability to sound both joyous and sad within a moment. What was initially 8 songs (later expanded to 18 and now 24) have a unique bittersweet innocence from the title track through to the happy ~ sad aura of “Frantic Drift” & “Rolling Moon”. And amongst all the fragile melodies mixed with a childlike wonder, is “Pink Frost”, for many The Chills most beloved track an eerie, haunting track, the bands first “hit”, perhaps the Flying Nun equivalent of “Love Will Tear Us Apart”. Surrounded by the aura of death following a dream Phillipps had, it also touches on a sense of desolation and yearning for a connection to the wider world and is no better example of the marvelous songwriting ability of this band from the world’s southernmost point.
Side 1:
Kaleidoscope World
Satin Doll
Frantic Drift
Rolling Moon
Bite
Side 2:
Flame Thrower
Pink Frost
Purple Girl
This Is The Way
Never Never Go
Don’t Even Know Her Name
Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe
Side 3:
Whole Weird World
Dream By Dream
Doledrums
Hidden Bay
I Love My Leather Jacket
The Great Escape
Side 4:
Oncoming Day (Early Version)
Dan Destiny And The Silver Dawn (Unplugged)
Martyn’s Doctor Told Me
I’ll Only See You Alone Again
Green Eyed Owl (Live)
Smile From A Dead Dead Face (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjW3MT8D9RY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3c5rumiVBE
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