The Chills 'Submarine Bells' + 'Soft Bomb' Vinyl Reissues Announced

Summer silly season stressing you out? Time to take a chill pill — or two — with Flying Nun Records' forthcoming vinyl reissues of The Chills' early '90s albums Submarine Bells and Soft Bomb. First released via US imprint Slash / Liberation, the story behind both artistically ambitious long-players was brought to light by Julia Parnell and Rob Curry's often eyebrow-raising documentary The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin Phillipps. Both records come home back to the Flying Nun vinyl catalogue for the first time in nearly three decades — freshly remastered, pressed in NZ by Holiday Records and featuring such celebrated Phillipps-penned favourites as 'Heavenly Pop Hit', 'Part Past Part Fiction' and 'The Male Monster From The Id'. You can pre-order your own copies before they drop on 15th January via the fancy new-look Flying Nun website here, and catch Martin Phillipps with his current lineup of The Chills touring throughout the North Island in late December.

Submarine Bells (Reissue) tracklist:

A1 Heavenly Pop Hit
A2 Tied Up In Chain
A3 The Oncoming Day
A4 Part Past Part Fiction
A5 Singing In My Sleep
A6 I Soar

B1 Dead Web
B2 Familiarity Breeds Contempt
B3 Don't Be - Memory
B4 Effloresce And Deliquesce
B5 Sweet times
B6 Submarine Bells

Soft Bomb (Reissue)

A1 The Male Monster From The Id
A2 Background Affair
A3 Ocean Ocean
A4 Soft Bomb
A5 There is No Harm in Trying
A6 Strange Case
A7 Soft Bomb II
A8 So Long
A9 Song For Randy Newman Etc.

B1 Sleeping Giants
B2 Double Summer
B3 Sanctuary
B4 Halo Fading
B5 There is No Point in Trying
B6 Entertainer
B7 Water Wolves
B8 Soft Bomb III