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 (six 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 (six 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 (six years ago) link
I really hope this crushes it in the year-end album poll
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 06:04 (six years ago) link
the choruses on this are never leaving my brain these days, I wake up most days with something from this playing in my head
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 08:28 (six years ago) link
i love this album! a fun tidbit i also just learned is that the male guitarist was the voice of "dash" in the movie the incredibles
― monotony, Monday, 2 October 2017 00:09 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2GZT5f4J7U
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:13 (six years ago) link
seeing them and wolf parade in a tiny venue on Saturday, extremely stoked
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Friday, 13 October 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
that's a great video
would love to see WP
― niels, Sunday, 15 October 2017 08:51 (six years ago) link
This album never wears out.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 03:41 (six years ago) link
Glitter never fails to sounds absolutely magica
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 04:56 (six years ago) link
*magical
saw them last night, the listed set times were more of a lie than pizzagate and qanon combined (I'm old, live nowhere near brooklyn and work 9 to 5 so I'm probably just complaining unnecessarily) but the set itself was amazing
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 24 August 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
you just wait lol
i'm talking about its slightly-superior forebears mind
― imago, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 12:33 (one year ago) link
Hmm yeah, I don't think they played this one when I saw them. It's not great. The other songs sounded so much better, especially the emo ballad.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 14:12 (one year ago) link
jfc why are they so terrible now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuM5eyjXtg
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:17 (nine months ago) link
Yeah I don't like the way they've gone with these post- Young Enough tracks. To me that one was the perfect middle ground between a glossy slick sound and 4 people just playing in a room. The sonic whiz-bang cluttered production style is not doing them any favors.
― o. nate, Thursday, 26 October 2023 22:32 (nine months ago) link
bliss is back, album in august. single is not doing much for me...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o01RqjMBS7I
― devvvine, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:12 (three months ago) link
The relief I felt when I saw those two singles from last year didn't make the album!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:15 (three months ago) link
would say this is better... it ain't percolator though
― devvvine, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:19 (three months ago) link
Song doesn't really go anywhere, but yeah at least it's not that quasi-hyper-pop vibe (although the production suggests that could still be in the mix). Oh well. I really like the second album, maybe that's all the Charly Bliss I need.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:24 (three months ago) link
it's been so long that it kinda felt like they'd already released a disappointing third album i'd forgotten about
― ufo, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:48 (three months 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqqS7G6onhE
this one's decent
― ufo, Thursday, 30 May 2024 21:03 (two months ago) link
I really like that. Maybe there's hope for the album after all.
― kitchen person, Friday, 31 May 2024 00:10 (two 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 (two months ago) link
Nope
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Friday, 31 May 2024 02:59 (two months ago) link
Would be a great song at maybe 20% faster tempo.
― o. nate, Friday, 31 May 2024 17:07 (two 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 (two months ago) link
Yeah nineteen is great idk why everyone is moaning itt
― a hoy hoy, Saturday, 1 June 2024 19:38 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-07cof4iIQ
― ivy., Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:02 (three weeks ago) link
pretty good!
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:35 (three weeks ago) link
they're clearly not going to repeat the debut and maybe that's ok?
― ufo, Tuesday, 9 July 2024 14:40 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks 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 (three weeks ago) link