Submarine Bells is an album by New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 group The Chills

The Chills

The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...

 released in 1990. This was the band's first album on a major label, as Martin Phillips signed to Slash Records, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

, to release the album in the USA. The album reached number 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

Dunedin Sound

The Dunedin sound was a style of indie pop music created in the southern New Zealand university city of Dunedin in the early 1980s.-Characteristics:...

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

Dunedin Town Hall

The Dunedin Town Hall is a municipal building in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. It is located in the heart of the city extending from The Octagon, the central plaza, to Moray Place through a whole city block. It is the seat of the Dunedin City Council, providing its formal meeting chamber, as...

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Track listing

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"

External links

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