Martin Phillips, whose New Zealand band the Chills served as an affect on R.E.M. and Pavement, has died. He was 61.
His loss of life was introduced in a assertion posted Sunday on the Chills’ social media accounts. No trigger or date was given. New Zealand’s Otago Day by day Occasions reported that Phillips had not too long ago been admitted to Dunedin Hospital with liver issues.
The Chills have been recognized for jangly guitar pop. Phillips was the band’s solely fixed member in a profession that attracted a world following throughout 4 a long time.
Neil Finn of Crowded Home issued a press release Sunday, calling Phillips “one in every of NZ’s biggest songwriters” and described him as having been “fascinated by and dedicated to the magic and thriller of music.”
Phillips fashioned the Chills in 1980 along with his sister, Rachel, and the band signed to Flying Nun Information in 1982. The band’s first studio album, Courageous Phrases, arrived in 1987.
Their follow-up, 1990’s Submarine Bells, cam out within the U.S. from Warner Bros. subsidiary Slash Information, which helped its Heavenly Pop Hit to No. 17 on Billboard’s fashionable rock chart.
Slash introduced the Chills to Los Angeles to report the band’s subsequent album, 1992’s Mushy Bomb, enlisting Peter Holsapple on keyboards within the studio, whereas Van Dyke Parks organized the tune Water Wolves.
The Chills broke up after touring for Mushy Bomb, however later reunited with a brand new lineup. The band’s most up-to-date album, Scatterbrain, got here out in 2021.
No data on survivors was instantly out there.
