Soft Bomb

by The Chills

Soft Bomb cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 July 1992
  • Label: Slash Records
  • Country: New Zealand
  • Length: 51:05
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Dimitrie Leivici, Lisa Mednick, Israel Baker, Gayle Levant, Debra Price, Larry Corbett, Sid Page, Mauro Rubbi, Berj Garabedian, Peter Holsapple, Joel Derouin, Herschel Wise, Ken Wild, Rick Gerding, Terry Moore, Barbra Porter, Maria Newman, Steven Schayer, Mauro Ruby

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Martin Phillipps relocated to the United States to craft this ambitious, conceptually sprawling album alongside a host of high-profile session musicians. The record infuses the band's signature New Zealand jangle pop with elaborate art-rock orchestrations, complex vocal arrangements, and interludes, showcasing Phillipps's deeply eccentric pop vision.

Genres

Descriptors: aquatic, jangly, lo-fi, guitar-driven, literate

Tracklist

  1. The Male Monster from the Id (3:47)
  2. Background Affair (4:17)
  3. Ocean Ocean (3:56)
  4. Soft Bomb (3:12)
  5. There Is No Harm in Trying (0:39)
  6. Strange Case (3:56)
  7. Soft Bomb II (1:02)
  8. So Long (3:20)
  9. Song for Randy Newman Etc (3:02)
  10. Sleeping Giants (3:26)
  11. Double Summer (3:13)
  12. Sanctuary (3:53)
  13. Halo Fading (3:35)
  14. There Is No Point in Trying (0:33)
  15. Entertainer (3:20)
  16. Water Wolves (4:40)
  17. Soft Bomb III (1:07)

Credits

  • The Chills - primary artist
  • Steven Schayer - backing vocals, background vocals vocal
  • Terry Moore - bass guitar, programmed by [keyboard programming], backing vocals, keyboard programming, background vocals vocal
  • Mauro Ruby - drums, percussion
  • Peter Holsapple - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, slide guitar, keyboards, violin, keyboard, resonator guitar
  • Lisa Mednick - keyboards, accordion, backing vocals, keyboard, background vocals vocal
  • Martin Phillipps - lead vocals, guitar, keyboards, percussion ["space-noise hose" & "stardust"], songwriter [all songs written by], percussion, keyboard
  • Van Dyke Parks - arranged by [string arrangement written by]

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