Submarine Bells
by The Chills
- Type: Album
- Released: June 1990
- Label: Slash
- Country: New Zealand
- Length: 36:06
- Community rating: 3.78/5 from 8 ratings
Artists on this release: Justin Harwood, Martin Phillipps, Andrew Todd, Donna Savage, James Stephenson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Making their major-label debut, New Zealand's The Chills delivered a pristine, highly melodic pinnacle of the jangly Dunedin Sound with 'Submarine Bells'. The album is characterized by its warm, oceanic production and Martin Phillipps's deeply bittersweet, melancholic songwriting.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic, aquatic, death, jangly, accessible
Tracklist
- Heavenly Pop Hit (3:28)
- Tied Up in Chain (3:15)
- The Oncoming Day (3:06)
- Part Past Part Fiction (2:56)
- Singing in My Sleep (2:40)
- I SOAR (3:05)
- Dead Web (2:16)
- Familiarity Breeds Contempt (3:21)
- Don't Be - Memory (4:46)
- Effloresce and Deliquesce (2:45)
- Sweet Times (0:42)
- Submarine Bells (3:41)
Credits
- The Chills - primary artist
- Kim Champagne - art direction, design, design/illustration
- Andrew Todd - backing vocals, keyboards, arranged by, keyboard, background vocals vocal
- Justin Harwood - backing vocals, bass, bass guitar, background vocals vocal
- James Stephenson - drums, percussion
- Steven Haigler - engineer, remix
- Paul Apted - engineer [second], additional engineer
- Greg Calbi - mastered by
- Bettmann Archive - photography by [all other images courtesy of]
- Bleddyn Butcher - photography by [band photos], photography
- Chris Newbert - photography by [jellyfish and juvenile jack photo], photography
- Douglas Sanderson - photography by [oar fish photo]
- Bruce H. Robison - photography by [periphylla photo]
- Gary Smith - producer, remix
- Martin Phillipps - vocals, guitar, written-by, arranged by
- Donna Savage - backing vocals
- Steve Haigler - engineer