The Chills

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).

Soft Bomb - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Similar Artists

The Weather Prophets

Dumptruck

The Pooh Sticks

Martin Newell

Eugenius

The Verlaines

Sneaky Feelings

Able Tasmans

Grant McLennan

The Sneetches

Double Happys

3Ds

Drop City

The Dentists

The Jean Paul Sartre Experience

Biff Bang Pow!

Animals That Swim

Sea Stories

Bike

The Magick Heads