The Chills - Spring Board -The Early Unrecorded Songs

 

If we had to pick a music hill to die on, it would be the placement of Martin Phillipps in the pop/rock Pantheon. In our view, the frontman of The Chills is one of the greatest pop/rock songwriters of the last approximately 45 years. His lyricism was sharp, evocative and literate. His songwriting range broadly embraced a variety of styles. Despite the band's multiple personnel changes and Martin's own personal health and substance abuse challenges, the man created a wonderful body of work that deserves the word "timeless".

One of Martin's pet projects was to finish and record songs that had been written in his early years but never recorded. He took a look at the material with the increased perspective of another 40 years of life, and reworked and recorded them. Unfortunately, Martin died last year before the project was released, but happily Martin's family, band members, friends and Fire Records have brought  the project to completion. Simply titled Spring Board - The Early Unrecorded Songs, the album is a beautiful and appropriate posthumous swan song to Martins career. The album is available in vinyl, CD and digital formats. We think it is a recording to treasure.

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