charly bliss: guppy

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

I really hope this crushes it in the year-end album poll

the choruses on this are never leaving my brain these days, I wake up most days with something from this playing in my head

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2GZT5f4J7U

seeing them and wolf parade in a tiny venue on Saturday, extremely stoked

that's a great video

would love to see WP

This album never wears out.

Glitter never fails to sounds absolutely magica

*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

I just don't get big gaps between artists playing, fair enough when you're with someone but as a regular single gig goer they are just painful. Finish the show earlier and we can all go home, or get an extra local band to play a set.

Old and cranky I am.

But yes they put on a great show, always seem thankful to the crowds which I love

few bands seem as genuinely appreciative of the attention as this band, it's v charming

my sister saw these folks open for Death Cab the other night and I'm listening to this album now and it's good I think

you are a right thinking person

New album out on May 10th!!

https://lnk.bio/charlybliss?fbclid=IwAR0Ha37znKyFb7i3KsOh8SILR0CZfzqlQS_08Sxl1w_QxkQ4nLavmxIDfBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3yayHHmUxs

you beat me to it!!!

Haha, I was surprised to be the first one. Video directed by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast. Two of my favourites!

Oh great another guitar band discovers synths.

wasn't really expecting them to suddenly get into the synths but i like it, the verse reminds me a fair bit of LC!

I appreciate the dedication to accurate 90s recall of the guitars to analog synth shift that happened mid decade, but tbh this song is underserved by Moogs.

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.

seeing 'em tonight, first time since 2017. think Forever has ended up my fave of the three.

Y'all should make a new Charly Bliss thread to bump so I can quit being reminded how much they suck now compared to Guppy.

I've made peace with the fact they don't owe me another album that hits me the way Guppy did, so y'all enjoy.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, August 2, 2019 12:19 PM (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I love the chorus: “I’m not… I’m not dead” Just that simple ungrammatical repetition turns it from a nothing to a great pop chorus. It’s Ramones-esque in that way- so dumb it’s brilliant.

xp At least update the title

first song on the new album triggers that "I am about to watch Clueless" feeling

I love Guppy and this one. I probably need to give the 2nd more listens.

"bleach" is still their best song imo

well, other than "nineteen"

"does anyone remember the album Guppy? this one's for all the Guppyheads out there" --Sam Hendricks last night. though I felt like the whole show had a similar (amazing) energy to when I saw them back then.

also didn't realize Forever was recorded here, so the "Nineteen" / "Last First Kiss" saxophonist (Lee Tran) ended up playing with them for those songs, that was great. and led me to this ep.