Pow! Biff! With a pounding rush of fear-fueled adrenaline, we “run with out sabers and our guns” in a futile attempt to escape the apocalypse. We feed the war machine to save our wives and babies from the vampires and the aliens, until we break ranks and escape to an even worse fate. Chris Mills [...]

It seemed like courting catastrophe: Record ten songs with seventeen musicians, mostly unrehearsed, live to two-track, in two days. There was a time, though, when records were made exactly that way, and Chris Mills argues that those were the best records, ever — fresh, inspired, solid gold. It was the time of Phil Spector’s “wall [...]

Chris Mills’ third full-length, may explain why he has found greater commercial success in the U.K. than the U.S.: The cross-pond pop, rock, folk, and soul of the 1960s and ’70s echoes throughout. You’ll hear Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Ray Davies, as well as the good Saints Nick (Drake and Lowe). On The Silver [...]

Apparently, to know Chris Mills is to have dated him, and suffered through the barbed-wire aftermath of a break-up. Last heard from on 1998′s Every Night Fight For Your Life, Mills was busy obfuscating his ambiguous tales of love with some of the most eclectic musical accompaniment he could unearth. Veering wildly between Spectoresque walls [...]

We first visited Chris Mills back in issue #4 upon release of his debut single, one of the best 7-inch releases of 1996. Nobody’s Favorite shows further evidence of Mills’ promise, though it’s still more a harbinger of what may be in store for this barely-old-enough-to-drink lad than the real deal itself. If there’s a [...]

Pretty much everything about this lil’ record is great, from the red vinyl, to scruffy hand-drawing cover of a big ol’ sedan pulling a trailer through the desert … and, oh yeah, the music. “Nowhere Town”, a Chris Mills original, is a near-classic of that yearning, heartfelt, stuck-in-a-small-town genre — a simple acoustic guitar/bass/brushes-on-snare tune [...]