The Chills – Submarine Bells (VG+/VG) – LP, US 1990

Submarine Bells is an LP by The Chills from 1990 released on the Liberation Records, Slash label.

About this album

Submarine Bells is The Chills’ most celebrated album, a high point of New Zealand alternative rock. Released in 1990, it refined the group’s melodic jangle into something fuller and more emotionally charged, with Martin Phillipps’ songwriting balancing fragility, bite and bittersweet hooks. The record features one of the band’s best-known songs, Heavenly Pop Hit, and helped widen their reputation beyond indie circles through its sharp arrangements and memorable choruses. Often viewed as a defining statement of the Flying Nun era, it shows why The Chills remain one of the most distinctive voices in late-20th-century guitar pop.