my god, this is the new best band ever
― alpine static, Friday, 10 March 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
this is the closest 90s thing to charly bliss imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glDFPjrolx0
― flopson, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
yes! that dog. was what immediately came to mind for me, too. charly singer is a bit squeakier than Anna Waronker, but yes.
― alpine static, Tuesday, 14 March 2017 23:57 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, BradNelson is OTM that they bring the hooks. Thanks for pointing this band out
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Thursday, 16 March 2017 04:12 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 16 March 2017 16:20 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elL0ktbhhnM
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 April 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Great song and love the video for it. "Black Hole" is "Bad Box" on their audiotree live performance for those interested.
― Handsome Bookor, Friday, 7 April 2017 21:34 (seven years ago) link
this band seems great
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
Guppy streaming now at NPR.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/13/523437524/first-listen-charly-bliss-guppy
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:30 (seven years ago) link
omg
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
oh yeah this is precisely as good as i expected it to be
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:16 (seven years ago) link
yeah this totally rules, hooks for days
― devvvine, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
mentioning belly made me very curious.
― Nourry, Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:09 (seven years ago) link
This is everything I wanted it to be <333
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 April 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
unsurprisingly I love this album, but it is way more like kay hanley than tanya donelly, both in sound and songwriting
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:00 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, there's nothing Belly-ish about this at all. I like it more than I ever liked Letter to Cleo, though.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:33 (seven years ago) link
btw the answer to who her voice reminds you of is mz moxy, or at least it is for me
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Saturday, 15 April 2017 03:42 (seven years ago) link
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
― bunny slopes, Saturday, 15 April 2017 06:13 (seven years ago) link
"DQ" is so killer
― Handsome Bookor, Saturday, 15 April 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 April 2017 21:41 (seven years ago) link
it's not! did....did you not need another letters to cleo record?
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:36 (seven years ago) link
I liked LtC, but I haven't touched their 90s records in years.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Saturday, 15 April 2017 23:44 (seven years ago) link
I mean we just DID get another letters to cleo record also
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 16 April 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
and that's not counting Weaponize or either of the Palmdale EPs
yeah also that!
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Sunday, 16 April 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:17 (seven years ago) link
i really like the rerecording of "ruby" and generally how much synth they layered over this thing
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
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?"
― Handsome Bookor, Thursday, 20 April 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
katherine this is great! http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/23085-guppy/
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 21 April 2017 11:51 (seven years ago) link
Doesn't sound like them particularly but something reminds me of The Blake Babies.
― yugi ex, Friday, 21 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 22 April 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
"jawbreaker soundtrack" could be swapped out for "she's all that soundtrack" or really just like any soundtrack between 1995-2005
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Sunday, 23 April 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
Love this album.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 23 April 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
this is great, they totally get that the best of this stuff was about hard rock as much as it was about hooks
― call all destroyer, Monday, 24 April 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
ennhhh, not especially
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 24 April 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
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. :/
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:27 (seven years ago) link
this is a total sugar rush
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
seeing them tonight. this album is so catchy.
― geoffreyess, Friday, 12 May 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Eva Hendricks last night: "Do you guys love the song "Minneapolis" by that dog.?"
― geoffreyess, Saturday, 13 May 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
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!!!
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9DEK9mNVRU
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
^^the song that hooked me initially
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 20:23 (seven years ago) link
That's definitely Camp Crystal Lake
― Handsome Bookor, Wednesday, 14 June 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link
this album makes me so happy
― alpine static, Friday, 16 June 2017 00:31 (seven years ago) link
it reminds me of Be Your Own Pet in a lot of (good) ways
― boxedjoy, Friday, 16 June 2017 07:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 04:49 (seven years ago) link
it is very good. i've come back to it more than any other new album as well.
― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 05:00 (seven years ago) link
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
― alpine static, Tuesday, 29 August 2017 05:39 (seven years ago) link
The worst creative crash and burn I've seen a band willingly engage in since Bloc Party.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:56 (four months ago) link
It was a fun day when I noticed Brad is thanked in the liner notes for Guppy
― ን (nabisco), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:07 (four months ago) link
i've gotten to live a few of my dreams and that was one of them
― ivy., Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:30 (four months ago) link
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.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 19:56 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqS7G6onhE
this one's decent
― ufo, Thursday, 30 May 2024 21:03 (three months ago) link
I really like that. Maybe there's hope for the album after all.
― kitchen person, Friday, 31 May 2024 00:10 (three months ago) link
it's the first track to really make the case for them as as Pop band
― ufo, Friday, 31 May 2024 00:20 (three months ago) link
Nope
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 31 May 2024 02:59 (three months ago) link
Would be a great song at maybe 20% faster tempo.
― o. nate, Friday, 31 May 2024 17:07 (three months ago) link
these both had to grow on me but it was very nice to even belatedly realize that “nineteen” is a fucking amazing song
― ivy., Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:31 (three months ago) link
Yeah nineteen is great idk why everyone is moaning itt
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:38 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-07cof4iIQ
― ivy., Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:02 (two months ago) link
pretty good!
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:35 (two months ago) link
they're clearly not going to repeat the debut and maybe that's ok?
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:40 (two months ago) link
i keep going back to "nineteen"... staggering
but i really like the new one too... reminds me of shiny late-'90s corporate alt rock
― ivy., Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:42 (two months ago) link
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
― francisF, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:46 (two months ago) link
Young Enough* (but also good enough)
That checks out. I haven't watched new Simpsons seasons since the Guppy period.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 10 July 2024 02:57 (one month ago) link
Um this is really good???? ivy OTM about “nineteen”, it’s Britney “Everytime” level crushing
― Tim F, Saturday, 17 August 2024 08:25 (three weeks ago) link
I DIE A LITTLEJUST TO BE LET IN
― ivy., Sunday, 18 August 2024 14:55 (three weeks ago) link
Yeah, for some reason these songs sound much better to me within the context of the album.
― o. nate, Monday, 19 August 2024 18:11 (three weeks ago) link
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
― ivy., Monday, 19 August 2024 18:16 (three weeks ago) link
oh god not to belabor the point but "nineteen" is the best song of the year, nothing even close
― ivy., Tuesday, 20 August 2024 14:10 (two weeks ago) link
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)
― ivy., Tuesday, 20 August 2024 14:12 (two weeks ago) link
omg, 'nineteen'. i'm crushed.
― Nourry, Tuesday, 20 August 2024 15:14 (two weeks ago) link
This is the best Taylor Swift album in years
― a hoy hoy, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 09:03 (two weeks ago) link
some songs have a carly rae jepsen vibe or is it only me?
― Nourry, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 10:38 (two weeks ago) link
oh yeah they sure do
― ivy., Wednesday, 21 August 2024 13:06 (two weeks ago) link
keep me down!cuz i live to drown in love like this!i want you to be my last first kiss!!!
― ivy., Thursday, 22 August 2024 16:08 (two weeks ago) link
This is my favourite pop album this yearCarly comparisons spot on
― nxd, Friday, 23 August 2024 16:33 (two weeks ago) link
basic/parodic to say but yeah this hits me in all the e-mo-tion, 1975, hearthrob ways
― uberweiss, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:31 (two weeks ago) link
i would've stayed until the LIGHTS. WENT. OUTforty stories til i HIT. THE. GROUNDyou couldn't pay me to go BACK. THERE. NOWso i tell myself so! it! might! come! true!
― uberweiss, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:32 (two weeks ago) link
sun goes down, come get me nowhate it when you're not around
;_;
― uberweiss, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:35 (two weeks ago) link
"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
― uberweiss, Saturday, 24 August 2024 17:55 (two weeks ago) link
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??
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Friday, 30 August 2024 18:01 (one week ago) link
otm. i have been crushing hard on someone and as a result i've been playing this song several times a day
― ivy., Friday, 30 August 2024 18:15 (one week ago) link
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.
― o. nate, Friday, 30 August 2024 19:20 (one week ago) link