Howling Bells discography
The discography of Howling Bells, a London-based Australian indie rock band, consists of four studio albums, three extended plays, twelve singles, and thirteen music videos. Formed in Sydney in 2004, the group consists of Juanita Stein (vocals, rhythm guitar), Glenn Moule (drums), Juanita's brother Joel Stein (lead guitar), and Gary Daines (bass guitar). Original Howling Bells bass guitarist, Brendan Picchio, left the band in December 2011. The band moved to London shortly after its formation and recorded its debut album with regular Coldplay producer, Ken Nelson. Following three singles, Howling Bells released their self-titled debut album Howling Bells (2006), to critical acclaim in the United Kingdom. It charted just inside the Top 100 in that country, and just outside the Top 50 in Australia. Four singles that were released from the album charted outside of the Top 100 in the UK. The band's second album Radio Wars (2009), received mixed reviews and failed to produce a charting single in any country, though the album itself charted higher than its more popular predecessor in both the UK and Australia. Howling Bells' third album The Loudest Engine (2011), was released to mostly positive reviews, but did not perform well on the charts. Their fourth album Heartstrings (2014), failed to chart in any nation.
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| Howling Bells discography | |
|---|---|
Howling Bells, King Tut's, Glasgow, June 2014 From left to right: Joel Stein, Glenn Moule, Juanita Stein, Gary Daines | |
| Studio albums | 4 |
| EPs | 3 |
| Singles | 12 |
| Music videos | 13 |
The discography of Howling Bells, a London-based Australian indie rock band, consists of four studio albums, three extended plays, twelve singles, and thirteen music videos. Formed in Sydney in 2004, the group consists of Juanita Stein (vocals, rhythm guitar), Glenn Moule (drums), Juanita's brother Joel Stein (lead guitar), and Gary Daines (bass guitar). Original Howling Bells bass guitarist, Brendan Picchio, left the band in December 2011.
The band moved to London shortly after its formation and recorded its debut album with regular Coldplay producer, Ken Nelson. Following three singles, Howling Bells released their self-titled debut album Howling Bells (2006), to critical acclaim in the United Kingdom. It charted just inside the Top 100 in that country, and just outside the Top 50 in Australia. Four singles that were released from the album charted outside of the Top 100 in the UK. The band's second album Radio Wars (2009), received mixed reviews and failed to produce a charting single in any country, though the album itself charted higher than its more popular predecessor in both the UK and Australia. Howling Bells' third album The Loudest Engine (2011), was released to mostly positive reviews, but did not perform well on the charts. Their fourth album Heartstrings (2014), failed to chart in any nation.
Albums
[edit]Studio albums
[edit]| Album title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [2][3] |
CAN | GER | JPN | US | ||
| Howling Bells |
|
92 | 53 | — | — | — | — |
| Radio Wars |
|
55 | 28 | — | — | — | — |
| The Loudest Engine |
|
151 [4] |
96 [5] |
— | — | — | — |
| Heartstrings |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes release that did not chart or was not released. | |||||||
Extended plays
[edit]| EP title | EP details |
|---|---|
| Cities Burning Down |
|
| Paradiso |
|
| Invisible |
|
Singles
[edit]| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
AUS [6] | ||||
| 2005 | "Low Happening" | — | 76 | Howling Bells | |
| 2006 | "Wishing Stone" | 101 | — | ||
| "Blessed Night" | 105 | — | |||
| "Setting Sun" | 114 | — | |||
| 2007 | "Low Happening"(re-issue) | 115 | — | ||
| 2008 | "Into the Chaos" | — | — | Radio Wars | |
| 2009 | "Cities Burning Down" | — | — | ||
| "Digital Hearts" | — | — | |||
| 2011 | "Into the Sky" | — | — | The Loudest Engine | |
| 2014 | "Slowburn" | — | — | Heartstrings | |
| "Your Love" | — | — | |||
| "Original Sin" | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes release that did not chart or was not released. | |||||
Low Happening
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"Low Happening" is the debut single from Howling Bells. First released as a digital download in 2005, followed by a CD release in 2006, its next appearance served as the third track on their debut album. Re-issued in 2007 in digital download and CD format once more, as well as vinyl, this time with various remixes by several different artists.
The band's most popular single to date, it was ranked at number 27 in NME's list of the best songs of 2007.[7] Click Music's Donna Dobson called it "one of the most interesting tunes of the year", and "a primal, almost raw, blending of blues with dirty rock 'n' roll".[8] The song was used in an episode of The OC.[9]
2005 (Stage version)
[edit]The video was directed by Josh Louge for Mathematics[10] and was shot at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney, Australia. DP (Director of Photography) Francesco Biffone was awarded a 2005 silver ACS (Australian Cinematographers Society) Award for Cinematography.[11] Captured on 35 mm film stock, it utilizes an aspect ratio of 1.85:1
It opens to the sight of a clapperboard and complete silence. Next is a stage right to stage left tracking shot from up-stage, behind the band, who at this point have started playing. As a whole the video is shot from a fixed position at a back angle, with a lot of it over the shoulder, and only one instance of it being hand-held. It isn't until the final verse and chorus that we are presented with the band from the front in which a tracking shot is pulling away from them, now playing in a set with a rear projection screen and props designed to mirror a forest.
2007 (Story version)
[edit]The video was directed by Dan Sully for Rebel Monk and was shot in Camden, London.[12] Sully was nominated for 2008 UK MVA Best New Director. Captured on 35 mm film stock, it utilizes an aspect ratio of 1.85:1
A technique called stop motion was used briefly in the video. There are only a few instances of stable shots with the rest of it being all hand-held. The girl in the video is Lynsey Wright.[13]
The camera scans a room, it's a mess, the walls are clad with nature-scened wallpaper, broken bottles along with a high heel shoe strew the floor. A young woman awakes in a bed, she's wrapped in blinking Christmas lights, her hand clutches burnt out sparklers, she's confused by it all. She gets up to look at herself in the mirror, she sees behind her a young man dressed as a skeleton passed out in the bathtub. She leaves and wanders the streets in and around Camden Lock listening to the song through her headphones, bemused by what she sees. The light in her eye and fast, sweeping motion of the camera gives the impression that she is obviously under the influence. She enters a diner in which members of the band patronize, she orders, attracts attention by swaying and twirling to her music. She sees a man sitting at a table, he's leaned up against the wall incoherent, she twists and plays with his tie only to push him away due to his inability to wake from a drunken coma. The video comes to a close when she appears at a fictitious Howling Bells joint at The Camden Barfly where she is overwhelmed by the music and dances to her favorite song. It's a Low Happening.
Track listings
[edit]CD digipack - LIBSP7183.2:
- "Low Happening"
- "The Wild"
- "This City's Burning"
CD - BELLACD136:
- "Low Happening"
- "Low Happening"(Dogsend Squash Club remix)
- "4 Play Documentary"(CD-ROM video)
- "Low Happening"(CD-ROM video)
7" - BELLAV136:
- "Low Happening"
- "Low Happening"(¡Forward, Russia! remix)
Digital downloads:
- "Low Happening"(The Presets remix)
- "Low Happening"(Dogsend Squash Club remix)
- "Low Happening"(Little People remix)
- "Low Happening"(¡Forward, Russia! remix)
Music videos
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| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | "Low Happening" | Josh Louge[14] |
| 2006 | "Wishing Stone"[15] | N/A |
| "Blessed Night" | Dan Fernbach[16][17] | |
| "Setting Sun" | ||
| 2007 | "Low Happening" | Dan Sully[18] |
| "Broken Bones" | Adam Jones[19] | |
| 2008 | "Into the Chaos"[20] | N/A |
| 2009 | "Cities Burning Down" | Piper Ferguson[21] |
| "Digital Hearts" | Dan Lowe[22][23] | |
| 2011 | "Into the Sky"[24] | Ollie Murray[25] |
| 2014 | "Slowburn" | Lexi Kiddo[26] |
| "Your Love" | Giorgio Testi[27] | |
| "Original Sin" | Anselm Belser[28] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK > Howling Bells". Zobbel.de (originally from OCC ∞ The Official Charts Company). Tobias Zywietz. Archived from the original on 4 July 2007. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
- ^ Kamoulakas, Neven (11 July 2006). "The ARIA Report" . ARIA. Australian Recording Industry Association. (853): 5.
- ^ Hung, Steffen (2009). Howling Bells – Radio Wars (Album). Australian Charts Portal (originally from ARIA ∞ Australian Recording Industry Association). Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ Zywietz, Tobias (24 September 2011). "Chart: CLUK Update 24.09.2011 (wk37)". Zobbel.de. Tobias Zywietz. Archived from the original on 6 October 2011. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ Wallace, Ian (27 September 2011). "The ARIA Report" (PDF). ARIA. Australian Recording Industry Association. (1126): 8.
- ^ Wallace, Ian (6 June 2006). "The ARIA Report" (PDF). ARIA. Australian Recording Industry Association. (848): 4
- ^ "NME - 2007 Track of Year list". nme.com. Archived from the original on 24 December 2008. Retrieved 5 February 2011.
- ^ "D. Dobson review". clickmusic.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "The OC". theocmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
- ^ "2005 video". xy-1.com. 31 January 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2011.
- ^ "F. Biffone_ACS Silver Award". acs.mylithio.com. 2 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2 September 2007.
- ^ "2007 video". hellolove.tv. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ "Girl in video". modelmayhem.com. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
- ^ Louge, Josh (Director); Biffone, Francesco (Director of Photography). (2005) (QuickTime) (.MOV). "Low Happening". (Music video). Enmore Theatre, Sydney, Australia: Mathematics. Archived from the original Archived 19 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine on 15 March 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2011. Note: (2005 Version).
- ^ "Wishing Stone" (FLV) (Music video). Postbahnhof, Berlin, Germany. 13 November 2005. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ Knight, David (March 2006). "Promo". Promo Magazine. Ajax Scott) (NXTbook Media. p. 28. Retrieved 31 March 2011. Note: Further reading pertaining to Howling Bells and Dan Fernbach can be found on p. 6.
- ^ Robinson, Corinne. "C.V.". Corinnelrmakeup.com. Archived from the original on 13 April 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011
- ^ Sully, Dan (Director, editor); Willcocks, Verity (Producer); Sabogal, Christopher (Director of Photography); Mabbett, Katie (Art Director); Wright, Lynsey (Actress) (November 2006). "Low Happening" (FLV) (Music video). Camden, London: Rebel Monk. Retrieved 3 February 2011. Note: (2007 version).
- ^ Jones, Adam (Director); Lee, Heather (Producer); Parsonson, Richard (Director of Photography); Brown, Phil (Editor). (October 2006) (FLV). "Broken Bones". (Music video). New Zealand: Zoomslide. Archived from the original on 28 April 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011. Note: User required to hover cursor over video's thumbnail for video information.
- ^ LiberationMusicAus (Author) (2008). "Into the Chaos" (FLV) (Music video). Los Angeles & London: Liberation. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ Ferguson, Piper (Director); Lodger Films/Oil Factory (US) / One Small Step (UK) (Production companies); Schroeder, Rob (US); Kreeger, Dan; O'Donnel, Scott (UK) (Producers); Rizzi, Michael (Director of Photography); Marks, Dan (Editor) (4 December 2008). "Cities Burning Down" (FLV) (Music video). London: Lodger Films. Retrieved 23 February 2011.
- ^ Green, Kerry (30 July 2012). "1st Assistant Director. Mr Kerry Green". Callbox Diary. Patsy Brinkworth. p. 3. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ "Event Projection has the Howling Bells surrounded!". Event Projection Ltd. (19 May 2009). Archived from the original Archived 2 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ Murray, Ollie (Director); Ross-Southall, Tobias (Director of Photography); Harrison, Joel (Effects) (July 2011). "Into the Sky" (MP4) (Music video). London: Black Line Films. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
- ^ Murray, Ollie (2011). "Music Videos – Ollie Murray". Oliver Murray. Archived from the original on 21 December 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ Kiddo, Lexi (Director) (6 March 2014). "Slowburn" (MP4) (Music video). London. Retrieved 5 April 2014.
- ^ Testi, Giorgio (Director); Domleo, Marcus (Director of Photography). (May 2014) (MP4). "Your Love". (Music video). London: Pulse Films. Archived from the original on 29 August 2014. Retrieved 29 August 2014.
- ^ Belser, Anselm (Producer, director). (September 2014). (MP4). "Original Sin". (Music video). Berlin. Retrieved 22 September 2014.
External links
[edit]- Howling Bells discography at Discogs