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― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 18 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
yeah I can agree with that
― ufo, Saturday, 18 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
I think I agree with that too. Great songs, so-so sound.
― Simon H., Saturday, 18 May 2019 14:58 (five years ago) link
I thought the production on this was good and suited the songs.
― o. nate, Sunday, 19 May 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
i guess this really illuminates what kind of a music / Charly Bliss fan I am, but i think "Hard to Believe" is my favorite song here
― alpine static, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:47 (five years ago) link
and i love the rest of it
but
that chorus
― alpine static, Tuesday, 21 May 2019 23:50 (five years ago) link
Agreed. I think the last indie band that could write choruses like this was the New Pornographers, but I don’t think even they ever had so many good ones on one album.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
I like a lot about the new album, but there are too many instances of the campfire indie stomp thing (more than zero). Every time it crops up it takes me out of the song.
― Mazzy Tsar (PBKR), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNneb7pj3n8
― adam, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
i posted something like this in the Weyes Blood thread to crickets, but...
anyone hear the quick wrong note in "Hard to Believe" at 2:06/07? love that kind of stuff.
i can't stop listening to this song.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:02 (five years ago) link
someone actually commissioned kay hanley to review the record, which is perfect https://www.talkhouse.com/charly-bliss-flirts-with-the-brutal-truth/
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:46 (five years ago) link
I don’t know how to review an album. It’s too much responsibility. Why did I agree to this? Argh.
lmao relatable
i love this
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 May 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Caught their show last night at the Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, and man was it great. This was their first time playing the big room -- they've played the much smaller adjacent tavern before -- and the energy onstage was just unbelievable. Definitely one of the best shows I've seen in the last 10 years or so. The interplay between Eva, Spencer and Dan is so energetic and infectious it's impossible to stand still while you're watching them. Can't remember the whole set list (I'm gonna be 50, gimme a break) but it included
Blown to BitsPercolatorRubyHard to BelieveHeavenChatroomDQBlack HoleYoung Enough
and five or so others. And they closed with an encore of "Mr. Brightside" by The Killers.
(I just realized last night that Eva said her first big inspiration for learning to write songs was Rilo Kiley, and both bands have former child actors in them.)
A couple of phone pics I snapped:
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― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
aw i love those photos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwszMAktc-M
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 12 June 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
Christgau's take: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3xqmj/robert-christgau-reviews-charly-bliss-young-enough
He mostly likes it except (typically) wishes it was a bit more political and not so bougie.
― o. nate, Sunday, 30 June 2019 02:41 (five years ago) link
hey so just to check in we now all agree that the new one fucking owns right? good
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Nah, still hate it.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
what's the irish phrase? git tae fuck?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
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, 2 August 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I'm a sucker for albums about bad relationships tbqh
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
I can't fault them for changing things up a bit, because they're still exceedingly competent about it. It's just not my particular bag. otoh the other big disappointment I had this year (Marina's album) comes down entirely to the fact she's become incredibly timid in her musical expression and the result is devoid of personality and risk. Charly Bliss didn't get shy. They just got more polished.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
Not a day goes by that "Capacity" isn't playing in my head at some point. And also usually "Camera."
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
"Under You" gets me right in the pit of my self-abnegating heart
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
I'm pretty far removed from feeling relationship shit deeply at this point (I haven't so much as dated since 2012), so nothing about love and loss hooks me to the degree it might have in the past.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
interesting -- not that the songs aren't about that but I wouldn't call charly bliss's core appeal their being about deep relationship shit
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
You're right. Not saying they really go spelunking into the deep, but silby's apparently taking that away from listens to the album.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
did I say deep?
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 16:58 (four years ago) link
"pit of my self-abnegating heart" insinuated as much. Ignore me, though!
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
The whole of this exchange is very low stakes for me, and I'm really just basing all my objections on the synths lol
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
I mean I think it's high-impact, like cf. the two most romantic things I've seen in the movies lately are Max giving blood to Furiosa and the consensual mushroom poisoning in Phantom Thread if that gives you a sense of my brain I don't know if I think it's deep
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
the synths are good they're like woomwoomwoom and then on other songs the guitars are like grangrangrang
I normally don't post on ILM lol but something like one album per year totally wrecks me and this year it's this one so I wanna yell about it
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
Go off! I'm glad people still have that energy. I don't anymore, even if I'm totally into something. I've only posted a couple times on the Meernaa thread, and that's my clear 2019 fave.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 2 August 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
oh I meant, the core appeal seems to me like the hooks, where basically anything could be sung over them and it'd still be great; the lyrics are a bonus
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
find it impossible to think of the lyrics as a "bonus" in an album like this but the world is full of different kinds of people and that's great
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 20:57 (four years ago) link
at first i was indifferent, but this is a grower it seems
― nostormo, Saturday, 3 August 2019 08:17 (four years ago) link
Saw 'em in Sydney a couple of weeks back, and they were great. Feel like the newer songs have more of a kick live with a higher tempo and less emphasis on the synths. They really just sounded more like Guppy songs, and for the better. Anyway, they had great energy and seemed like they were having lots of fun.
Mr. Brightside cover was cool.
― triggercut, Saturday, 3 August 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
I have to admit that I've warmed up to it (some more) in the last months. Now it's... fine.But yes, as Johnny Fever said, they don't owe me a Guppy 2 and that's perfectly okay.By now I'm just glad that this seems to be enjoyed by a lot of people.
― fragglerock, Sunday, 4 August 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
new ep! https://charlybliss.bandcamp.com/album/supermoon
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:33 (four years ago) link
lovely news! still going back to young enough pretty regularly
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:34 (four years ago) link
and to drop it on a rare occasion i can listen at work, so thoughtful!
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
fans of guppy who couldn't get down with the new lp: idk, seems like this is for you
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
how do they write so many good songs
was mid supermoon and came to post the same thing
― devvvine, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Niiiice!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Holy shit @ "Threat." I'm constantly wrestling with whether or not I was that guy in my youth, and I don't think I was to that degree, but I feel this in my bones.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
This new E.P sounds somewhat like a bunch of Demos. Everything is quite basic, thin and...boring :(
― nostormo, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
"heaven" giving me breeders vibes.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
these songs are all pretty good except for "supermoon"
― ufo, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
ended their set tonight with a dancing on my own cover
― devvvine, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link