Submarine Bells

Submarine Bells
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Studio album by The Chills
Released	1990
Recorded	Jacobs Studios, Surrey, August-October 1989
Genre	Jangle pop indie pop
Length	36 minutes
Label	Flying Nun Slash
Producer	Gary Smith
The Chills chronology
Brave Words (1987)Brave Words1987 Submarine Bells (1990) Soft Bomb (1992)Soft Bomb1992

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Submarine Bells is an album by New Zealand group The Chills, released in 1990. This was the band's first album on a major label, as Martin Phillips signed to Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Slash Records, to release the album in the USA. The album reached #1 on the New Zealand album charts and had significant support from American college radio. The album was awarded gold status in New Zealand and represents the peak of The Chills' popularity at home.

The album is often acclaimed as The Chills' most diverse piece of work, with the aptly named "Heavenly Pop Hit," the surreal "I Soar" and the combative, harder sound of "Familiarity Breeds Contempt". It is considered to be one of the defining albums of the Dunedin Sound.

The supporting tour for Submarine Bells culminated in a triumphant home-coming concert in Dunedin Town Hall.

Track listing

All songs written by Martin Phillips.

1. "Heavenly Pop Hit"
2. "Tied Up in Chain"
3. "The Oncoming Day"
4. "Part Past Part Fiction"
5. "Singing in My Sleep"
6. "I Soar"
7. "Dead Web"
8. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt"
9. "Don't Be - Memory"
10. "Effloresce and Deliquesce"
11. "Sweet Times"
12. "Submarine Bells"

Awards

The album won Best Album at the 1990 New Zealand Music Awards.

External links

• The Chills performing "Heavenly Pop Hit" in 2008
• 1990 video for "Heavenly Pop Hit"

Preceded by Safety in Numbers by Margaret Urlich

New Zealand Music Awards Album of the Year 1990

Succeeded by Body Blow by Headless Chickens