The Chills – Pink Frost (1984)

New Zealand, in general, and the Flying Nun record label, in particular, is/are responsible for some of the best indie music of the last 30 years. I have previously posted The Verlaines “Death and the Maiden” (see here) and now need to turn my attention to The Chills.

Alongside stablemates like The Clean, The Bats, The Tall Dwarfs and The Verlaines (plus many more), The Chills released a series of fantastic LPs and singles between 1982 and the early 2000s. This track is taken from a single released on Flying Nun in 1984.

Two versions, the original video from 1984 then an extraordinary early live performance that claims to have been filmed around 2 years before the song was eventually released. Look like a typical school band …