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
best band in the world
― devvvine, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 3:11 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
inject it into my veins
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
and yeah, the new EP is so-so but Supermoon and Heaven are great
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 7 November 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
And when the sidewalk ripped up our frozen feetI can't protect you now if I couldn't save you thenYou were still just a kidYou're a beautiful boyCrushing cigarettes just to prove a point
― Indexed, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:00 (three years ago) link
Young Enough is such a great album.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:03 (three years ago) link
new music tomorrow, yippee skippee!
― soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link
Great news. I saw them in April and they said the album was finished. The new material sounded really good.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzoS0wt7D-U
it's quite a pop move, not bad but doesn't really play to their strengths either
― ufo, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 06:40 (one year ago) link
Hard no
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:37 (one year ago) link
feel like i've heard this song 50 times before, and that's just in ILX EOY singles polls
― imago, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:59 (one year ago) link
don't think it's good enough to make the eoy poll really
― ufo, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 12:30 (one year 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 (eight 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 (eight 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 (one month 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 (one month ago) link
would say this is better... it ain't percolator though
― devvvine, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:19 (one month ago) link