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
I really hope this crushes it in the year-end album poll
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 06:04 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (six years ago) link
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.
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 24 August 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
But yes they put on a great show, always seem thankful to the crowds which I love
― Minister of the Pillow (fionnland), Friday, 24 August 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
few bands seem as genuinely appreciative of the attention as this band, it's v charming
― alpine static, Friday, 24 August 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
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
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
you are a right thinking person
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
New album out on May 10th!!
https://lnk.bio/charlybliss?fbclid=IwAR0Ha37znKyFb7i3KsOh8SILR0CZfzqlQS_08Sxl1w_QxkQ4nLavmxIDfBg
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3yayHHmUxs
you beat me to it!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
Haha, I was surprised to be the first one. Video directed by Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast. Two of my favourites!
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:16 (five years ago) link
Oh great another guitar band discovers synths.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
wasn't really expecting them to suddenly get into the synths but i like it, the verse reminds me a fair bit of LC!
― ufo, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Nice
― Sam Weller, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
Just noticed that Heaven isn't on the new album. That's a shame.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
Normally, I'm all synths >>>>>>> guitars but yeah, really don't feel this applies here. Lovely melodies as usual, but so much of what made their debut great were those punchy, sparkly guitar hooks.
― Roz, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
Aweh I really like this!
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
I hate to be a "I miss the guitars" guy but I miss the guitars
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
i assume y'all will get some of what you want on the actual record
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
yeah, i expect this track will fit better into an album compared to how it seems as a standalone.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
I hope we get some more guitars. But the fact that they left Heaven off the album makes me think otherwise.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
i think "heaven" was written and recorded before any of the new album, is why it's standalone
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
they played it at the guppy release show i attended two years ago
part of team sceptical/concerned over here.Guppy was probably my most-played record of 2017 and this... reminds somewhat of Kero Kero Bonito during the snythy beginning and Carly Rae Jepsen towards the end?
And even though I absolutely love KKB and CRJ, this just isn't what I want from Charly Bliss.
― fragglerock, Thursday, 7 February 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
I don't know, I enjoy songs with a lovely chorus and harmonies, so I like this a lot. And it does have guitars. Something for everyone.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 7 February 2019 09:20 (five years ago) link
I don't know if this really count as "another guitar band discovers synths" -- the hooks are still there, and there's a long gap from this to landfill synthpop. also, it's great, kind of reminds me of fight like apes
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Thursday, 7 February 2019 18:01 (five years ago) link
well, other than "nineteen"
― ivy., Wednesday, 18 September 2024 17:26 (two weeks ago) link
"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.
― moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Thursday, 19 September 2024 01:16 (two weeks ago) link
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.
― moral ziosk (geoffreyess), Thursday, 19 September 2024 01:21 (two weeks ago) link