charly bliss: guppy

oh yeah this is precisely as good as i expected it to be

yeah this totally rules, hooks for days

mentioning belly made me very curious.

This is everything I wanted it to be <333

unsurprisingly I love this album, but it is way more like kay hanley than tanya donelly, both in sound and songwriting

Yeah, there's nothing Belly-ish about this at all. I like it more than I ever liked Letter to Cleo, though.

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.

btw the answer to who her voice reminds you of is mz moxy, or at least it is for me

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

"DQ" is so killer

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.

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

new ep! https://charlybliss.bandcamp.com/album/supermoon

lovely news! still going back to young enough pretty regularly

and to drop it on a rare occasion i can listen at work, so thoughtful!

fans of guppy who couldn't get down with the new lp: idk, seems like this is for you

how do they write so many good songs

was mid supermoon and came to post the same thing

Niiiice!

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.

This new E.P sounds somewhat like a bunch of Demos. Everything is quite basic, thin and...boring :(

"heaven" giving me breeders vibes.

these songs are all pretty good except for "supermoon"

ended their set tonight with a dancing on my own cover

best band in the world

ended their set tonight with a dancing on my own cover

― devvvine, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 3:11 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

inject it into my veins

and yeah, the new EP is so-so but Supermoon and Heaven are great

And when the sidewalk ripped up our frozen feet
I can't protect you now if I couldn't save you then
You were still just a kid
You're a beautiful boy
Crushing cigarettes just to prove a point

Young Enough is such a great album.

new music tomorrow, yippee skippee!

Great news. I saw them in April and they said the album was finished. The new material sounded really good.

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

Hard no

feel like i've heard this song 50 times before, and that's just in ILX EOY singles polls

don't think it's good enough to make the eoy poll really

you just wait lol

i'm talking about its slightly-superior forebears mind

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.

jfc why are they so terrible now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBuM5eyjXtg

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.