BBC Music Magazine

Thrills and chills

Goosebumps: our bodies’ involuntary reaction to situations of heightened emotional intensity, physical frissons that we can’t ignore, we can’t control, and we can hardly explain. And of all the art-forms that give us goosebumps most passionately, it’s music that reaches the parts that nothing else can.

But where do they come from??

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