The Chills

The Chills
The Chills (left to right): Justin Harwood, James Stephenson, Martin Phillipps, Andrew Todd, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1989
Background information
Also known as	A Wrinkle in Time, Martin Phillipps and the Chills
Origin	Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand
Genres	Dunedin sound[1] jangle pop[2][3] indie pop[4]
Years active	1980–1983 1984–1992 1994–1996 1999–present
Labels	Flying Nun Homestead Creation Slash Fire
Members	Martin Phillipps Todd Knudson Erica Scally Oli Wilson Callum Hampton
Past members	see Former members
Website	thechills.band

The Chills are a New Zealand rock band that formed in Dunedin in 1980. The band are fronted by founding mainstay singer-songwriter, guitarist Martin Phillipps. During the mid-1990s they were billed as Martin Phillipps & the Chills. Their top ten studio albums in their homeland are Submarine Bells (1990), Soft Bomb (1992), Snow Bound (2018) and Scatterbrain (2021). The Chills were a cult band in other parts of the world as one of the earliest proponents of the Dunedin sound. Their top 20 singles are "Pink Frost", "Doledrums" (both 1984), "I Love My Leather Jacket" (1986), "Heavenly Pop Hit" (1990) and "Male Monster from the Id" (1992).