#Pink Frost

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The Chills - Pink Frost (1984)

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202: The Chills // Kaleidoscope World

Kaleidoscope World The Chills 1986, Creation

You can look at the Dunedin Sound as psychedelic pop with a sour post-punk undercurrent, or post-punk swirled with the sugar of psychedelic pop depending on the band at hand, and sometimes even the song. You get that split in action on “Pink Frost” and “I Love My Leather Jacket,” the two most popular songs from the Chills’ Kaleidoscope World. Kaleidoscope World was originally a slim compilation of their early singles, but over the course of a series of reissues has expanded to encompass nearly all of their pre-1987 work. “Pink Frost” is justifiably regarded as a classic, one of the few moments where that uneasy vibe all the key Flying Nun bands had beneath their childlike keyboard tones became the dominant motif: grief, blood-stained ice, shattered glass, like Joy Division sung by a guy walking in the rain in a sweater his mum knit for him. On the other side, “I Love My Leather Jacket” is as idiotically simple as Suicide on a good day, a song with a motorik beat and a hostile drone hidden beneath a melody and lyric that could be on a kids’ TV show. The Chills explored many of the latitudes between those two poles before ever cutting their first LP, and Kaleidoscope World is a clearinghouse of exquisitely ambiguous pop music.

With a gun to my head, I would choose the Chills as my favourite of the classic Dunedin bands, and it’s largely on the strength of these recordings (and their first two excellent LPs). Everything bends on the pensive “This is the Way” (originally from The Lost EP), a song mid-‘90s R.E.M. could’ve made great work of; “Bee Bah Bee Bah Bee Boe” (ditto) explores maritime folk instrumentation on a lament considerably more melancholic than its title would indicate; single “Rolling Moon” itemizes the symptoms of physical exhaustion over merrily jangling guitars and even a bit of whistling. The Chills are probably pretty close to “properly rated” among aficionados of ‘80s guitar pop (i.e. they’re revered), but there is always more room in the cult if you haven’t yet made the plunge. Do it!

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The Chills - Pink Frost

Childhood favourite. Absolutely haunting. Go onto YouTube and check out the comments for this; there’s some interesting stories there <3

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