charly bliss: guppy

my god, this is the new best band ever

this is the closest 90s thing to charly bliss imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glDFPjrolx0

yes! that dog. was what immediately came to mind for me, too. charly singer is a bit squeakier than Anna Waronker, but yes.

Yeah, BradNelson is OTM that they bring the hooks. Thanks for pointing this band out

Charly Bliss are great. They've been around for awhile—"Love Me" was one of my favorite songs of 2014—I'm glad they're finally releasing an album (thankfully it's not loaded with old songs, like Bully's debut; "Ruby," "Percolator," and "Gatorade" are the only tracks already released). Does anyone else prefer the Audiotree Live version of "Percolator"? I love her yelp in the beginning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elL0ktbhhnM

Great song and love the video for it. "Black Hole" is "Bad Box" on their audiotree live performance for those interested.

this band seems great

Guppy streaming now at NPR.

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/13/523437524/first-listen-charly-bliss-guppy

omg

oh yeah this is precisely as good as i expected it to be

yeah this totally rules, hooks for days

mentioning belly made me very curious.

This is everything I wanted it to be <333

unsurprisingly I love this album, but it is way more like kay hanley than tanya donelly, both in sound and songwriting

Yeah, there's nothing Belly-ish about this at all. I like it more than I ever liked Letter to Cleo, though.

I'm not sure why they re-recorded "Ruby." I mean, it's about 99% the same, but the tiny differences are throwing me off.

btw the answer to who her voice reminds you of is mz moxy, or at least it is for me

This album is a miracle

And yeah I hear Letters to Cleo here more than anyone else, but they never made an album this consistently good

"DQ" is so killer

Of the songs posted itt, I quite like "Glitter." The rest are somewhere between "yeah, this is catchy" and "but did I really need another Letters to Cleo record?" Still, I'll check out the album. Hoping "Glitter" isn't the only track with synths on it.

it's not! did....did you not need another letters to cleo record?

I liked LtC, but I haven't touched their 90s records in years.

I mean we just DID get another letters to cleo record also

and that's not counting Weaponize or either of the Palmdale EPs

yeah also that!

Can't stop playing this album. Definitely my favorite of the year so far. Torn between "DQ" and "Glitter" as the best song on it.

i really like the rerecording of "ruby" and generally how much synth they layered over this thing

I came around to the new "Ruby"; took some getting used to. Was listening to the A Lot to Say and Soft Serve EPs today and realized just how much progress they've made with Guppy (really glad Eva takes lead vocals on all 10 tracks).

Also, she's quickly becoming one of my favorite lyricists. So funny, bizarre, and self-deprecative, but not in a classically emo tear-yourself-down kinda way. So many quotables on this record, but the opening lines of "DQ" are my favorite: "I laughed when your dog died/it's cruel, but it's true/take me back, kiss my soft side/does he love me most now that his dog is toast?"

katherine this is great! http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23085-guppy/

Doesn't sound like them particularly but something reminds me of The Blake Babies.

I made a post in this thread yesterday giving Katherine a hi-five for namedropping Stretch Princess in 2017, but it disappeared. I can't let that acknowledgement go unappreciated though, so I'm posting it again.

"jawbreaker soundtrack" could be swapped out for "she's all that soundtrack" or really just like any soundtrack between 1995-2005

Love this album.

this is great, they totally get that the best of this stuff was about hard rock as much as it was about hooks

ennhhh, not especially

I want to like this so much. They kind of have "Erica band" written all over them and yet I find her voice so awful and grating that I can't listen to any of it beyound a couple seconds. :/

this is a total sugar rush

seeing them tonight. this album is so catchy.

Eva Hendricks last night: "Do you guys love the song "Minneapolis" by that dog.?"

Hey, I like this record.

It looks like some other old person beat me to the that dog comparison, but it's accurate. These are some catchy songs, and toadilly unique vocals.

Charly Bliss are a dynamite act!!!

i'm not old enough to remember it from the 90s but when i was in college my roommate and i watched every spike jonze music video :)

lovin the album btw. it's almost slight in its hyper-focused aesthetic, but perfecting the micro-est of pop micro-genres is the noblest pursuit imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DEK9mNVRU

^^the song that hooked me initially

That's definitely Camp Crystal Lake

this album makes me so happy

it reminds me of Be Your Own Pet in a lot of (good) ways

Four months later and this is still my favourite album of the year. like nothing else even comes close to this for me, pretty much every song is fantastic.

it is very good. i've come back to it more than any other new album as well.

samesies

i don't know if i will really put it at #1 at year's end, but it will be top 5 and i probably listen to it more than whatever will be ahead of it

The worst creative crash and burn I've seen a band willingly engage in since Bloc Party.

It was a fun day when I noticed Brad is thanked in the liner notes for Guppy

i've gotten to live a few of my dreams and that was one of them

can't blame a band for trying new things, pushing themselves, expanding their sound, evolving, etc. — it's their band to run, after all, not mine — but sometimes the best move would be to just make the first album over and over again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqS7G6onhE

this one's decent

I really like that. Maybe there's hope for the album after all.

it's the first track to really make the case for them as as Pop band

Nope

Would be a great song at maybe 20% faster tempo.

these both had to grow on me but it was very nice to even belatedly realize that “nineteen” is a fucking amazing song

Yeah nineteen is great idk why everyone is moaning itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-07cof4iIQ

pretty good!

they're clearly not going to repeat the debut and maybe that's ok?

i keep going back to "nineteen"... staggering

but i really like the new one too... reminds me of shiny late-'90s corporate alt rock

my scientific analysis

Guppy: Seasons 1-8 (Classic)
Good Enough: Season 9-17 (Still Damn Good)
since: Modern Simpsons (never will be want i want them to be again, but still comforting)

works for a lot of artists

Young Enough* (but also good enough)

That checks out. I haven't watched new Simpsons seasons since the Guppy period.

Um this is really good???? ivy OTM about “nineteen”, it’s Britney “Everytime” level crushing

I DIE A LITTLE
JUST TO BE LET IN

Yeah, for some reason these songs sound much better to me within the context of the album.

i think "i don't know anything" is my favorite song here that isn't "nineteen," very candid lyrics, sounds like a slow motion sugar crash

oh god not to belabor the point but "nineteen" is the best song of the year, nothing even close

i was also certain that "in your bed" was gay as hell but i checked a track-by-track they did recently and it's just about a newly blossoming female friendship.... (ok sorry, to me that's always going to be gay as hell)

omg, 'nineteen'. i'm crushed.

This is the best Taylor Swift album in years

some songs have a carly rae jepsen vibe or is it only me?

oh yeah they sure do

keep me down!
cuz i live to drown in love like this!
i want you to be my last first kiss!!!

This is my favourite pop album this year
Carly comparisons spot on

basic/parodic to say but yeah this hits me in all the e-mo-tion, 1975, hearthrob ways

i would've stayed until the LIGHTS. WENT. OUT
forty stories til i HIT. THE. GROUND
you couldn't pay me to go BACK. THERE. NOW
so i tell myself so! it! might! come! true!

sun goes down, come get me now
hate it when you're not around

;_;

"last first kiss" definitely the best song that's ever been made

YEAH IT HURTS TO TRY BUT IT KILLS TO MISS stuck in my head on loop

Still not convinced that this album is as good as the previous two…. but Calling You Out might be the best thing they’ve ever done?? And it might be the song of the year??

"last first kiss" definitely the best song that's ever been made

otm. i have been crushing hard on someone and as a result i've been playing this song several times a day

Never thought I'd be saying this, but I think this album could've benefited from a couple of ballads or slower songs to mix things up. It's like a dozen highly-caffeinated three-minute urgent pop anthems in a row. I brought this on a road trip, and the first 5 or so are a heady rush but then I lose focus because of the similarity of tempo and chords and the vocal register begins to sound a bit strained. Or maybe I'm just getting old.. The album still kicks ass though.