New Chills Album Compiles Martin Phillipps’ Recordings of His Earliest Songs

Earlier than his death this June on the age of 61, Martin Phillipps, the founding father of New Zealand jangle-pop greats the Chills, was at work on an album of songs he wrote in his youth however by no means formally recorded. That work of reimagination, Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs, is now prepared for launch. Spring Board: The Early Unrecorded Songs will arrive on February 28, 2025, through Fire. Take heed to a observe from the gathering, “If This World Was Made for Me,” beneath, and scroll down for the tracklist.

A press launch quotes Phillipps recollecting the expertise of creating the document. “All the songs wanted various levels of rewriting,” he stated. “A 60-year outdated man couldn’t simply stick with the lyrics of these childhood. And a few of the songs had been simply imprecise recollections, incomplete, solely blossoming throughout recording.” Contributors to the LP embrace Crowded Home’s Neil Finn and members of Fur Patrol, Cut up Enz, Purple Pilgrims, and different New Zealand establishments.