Submarine Bells
The Chills' signing with Slash/Warner Bros. led them to producer Gary  Smith, who helped make the New Zealand indie-popsters' most polished record yet.  As it turns out,Submarine Bellsis also their masterpiece, a genuinely  gorgeous meld of nearly orchestral keyboard washes and melodies that refuse to  leave your head (or, for long stretches, your CD player). "Sitting alone at  night in my dark bedroom, trying to explain myself in a song to you,"  Martin Phillipps is more obsessive--about pop music, unhappy love affairs,  death--than ever. OnSubmarine Bells, he passes a version of salvation on  to you.--Rickey Wright