The Chills - Kaleidoscope World
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Artist: The ChillsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2007-08-06
Music Label: Flying Nun
Soundtracks:
- Kaleidoscope World
- Satin Doll
- Frantic Drift
- Rolling Moon
- Bite
- 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
- Whole Weird World
- Dream by Dream
- Doledrums
- Hidden Bay
- I Love My Leather Jacket
- Great Escape
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Free Music Review: sheer brilliance
Hit: 5 Stars
I love a lot of Kiwi alt rock bands, and while the Chills may not be my favorites (that would have to be the wonderful band The Clean), this is, nevertheless, a wonderful, brilliant record. Filled with quirky details and loaded with lo-fi charm and appeal, this is what great rock music sounds like, and it's the best recording by this talented band (it's actually a compilation of different EPs). It also has one of the catchiest pop-rock songs ever written, the amazing I Love My Leather Jacket.
I only wish Kaleidoscope World were still available for purchase. I also wish the Chills would consider a U.S. tour, but alas, they seem content to stick around their home country and to play only the occasional show.
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Kaleidoscope World is the Chills' essential document, a collection of tracks from early and mid-'80s EPs, singles, and compilation cuts. The influence of Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd is stronger on these early tracks than it would be on subsequent releases, both on the easygoing sing along numbers and the more experimental outings. The highlight (of both the album and the Chills' career) is their New Zealand hit single, the haunting 'Pink Frost'.This CD expansion of a compilation of early singles and EP cuts by New Zealand's best known alt-pop band has a couple of flat spots. But both the 18- track length and the generally robust health of Martin Phillipps' songwriting make it a generous offer that's hard to refuse. Phillipps was actually to do more consistent work on Brave Words and Submarine Bells, but Kaleidoscope World finds him working out early versions of his continuing obsessions--death, the environment--in a fascinating manner. It also includes one of his all-time greats, "I Love My Leather Jacket," a gorgeous rocker about the premature loss of a friend. --Rickey Wright
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