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The Chills’ Frontman Martin Phillipps Honored with Posthumous Album

Phillipps had been working on the newly-announced 'Spring Board' record at the time of his unexpected passing in July.

Martin Phillipps of The Chills performs on stage during Primavera Sound at Parc del Forum on June 4, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain. Alongside his work as a member of the Chills, Phillipps had spent the final years of his life trawling through his archives, rediscovering many “easy songs and musings” which were revisited and revised ahead of being collected on Spring Board. He had played what was called “an integral part” of the university town’s scene in the 1980s, and of Roger Shepherd ‘s Flying Nun Records family, whose roster would include the Clean, the D4, Headless Chickens and Tall Dwarfs, Chris Knox, Straitjacket Fits and the Verlaines.

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