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The Chills /// “Pink Frost” /// Kaleidoscope World

The Chills’ 1984 chart breakthrough, “Pink Frost,” gives me bad anxiety. Blankets of it.  Blankets that pile on and muffle the minor-key leering that follows the chirpy opening bars.  The aural suffocation feeds directly into heart-turning lyrical concerns about a girl’s sudden, shocking death (gun to my head, I think it’s an overdose) and the panicked guy who finds her that way. Shattering as it is, I have an apparently bottomless need to hear it, no matter how close to full-fledged breakdown it takes me. Of a piece, I’d argue, with the end of SLC Punk, which is true and devastating and rewatchable in kindred ways.

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   - Pink Frost, arguably...best/most joy divisionish Dunedin Sound song

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   i’m digging this track...you have my empathy..

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