The Chills - Kaleidoscope World (Expanded Edition Red/Green 2LP)

The Chills - Kaleidoscope World (Expanded Edition Red/Green 2LP)Kaleidoscope World is not just the starting point for The Chills, but a story of how it all began and 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 zany brightness of the cover art

opener “Try to Sleep” sets the album’s tone: Warmer

It Is What It Is follows his game-changing third album Drunk (2017)

Side B closes with a bit of tossback: "Hide In The Roses"

channeling the anxieties of his heritage into his playing and keeping the group grounded when they switch into all-out percussive attack

and momentary tangent away from the otherwise collaborative project that is Florist

Presented with hours of unreleased home recordings

and its cult has continued to grow over the years

you'd be hard-pressed to go a listen without discovering something new

Badalamenti) and post-Romanticism (Scriabin

Songs often begin in the form of a simple chant or hypnotic abstraction

The band used this tranquil retreat to refine their most reflective and mature batch of songs to date

abrasive (and