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The Chills: Silver Bullets

Andrew Mueller, Uncut, December 2015

NEW ZEALAND HAS had an inestimable impact on The Chills. Had singer, guitarist and songwriter Martin Phillipps hailed from certain other countries, he would perhaps be regarded as a colossus. But if he came from those countries. The Chills wouldn't have sounded so strange, so askance, so like ghosts.

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