The Chills - ScatterbrainNew studio album from the Dunedin (NZ) songsmiths helmed by the enigmatic Martin Phillipps with artwork by Trees David Costa. Dunedins finest, The Chills release their seventh studio album Scatterbrain, a glorious self examination of Martin Phillipps songwriting hot (ish) on the heels of the hugely successful Snowbound (2018) and the critically acclaimed movie The Chills: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Martin Phillipps a year later. Its about artistic

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This album is more focused on atmosphere and mood

Praise for ‰Û÷Field Of Reeds‰۪: ‰ÛÏpoignant‰۝ - The Guardian (4/5)

as in regular singer-songwriter music

The duo are also currently one-third of Gloria

However the simple life of a gardener would not last long

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visceral power

” The change is palpable from last year’s claustrophobic and fried Void Moments

The organs and synths flow in the background as mood-enhancers

but there is plenty of gleeful irreverence

a 22-track anthematic tone poem to the prairie state