charly bliss: guppy

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.

Nice

Just noticed that Heaven isn't on the new album. That's a shame.

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.

Aweh I really like this!

I hate to be a "I miss the guitars" guy but I miss the guitars

i assume y'all will get some of what you want on the actual record

yeah, i expect this track will fit better into an album compared to how it seems as a standalone.

I hope we get some more guitars. But the fact that they left Heaven off the album makes me think otherwise.

i think "heaven" was written and recorded before any of the new album, is why it's standalone

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.

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.

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

yeah i kept wanting to post “the bones of this song are good who caaares”

enh sonics matter, and despite the trad instrumentation on the last album, the sound was more distinctive. this sounds like a million other acts to me (for now, anyway)

maybe it's just that Eva's voice stands out to me more contrasting w/ the crunch

I mean, <i>Guppy</i> also sounded like a million other acts, they just happened to be really good ones

And many of them were from 20 years ago.

that too

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

Why does this one suck too? I'm worried.

"capacity" doesn't suck wtf

this one doesn't suck either but i'm still adjusting to it

You're right. But it's not super great or anything. xp

This one for sure sucks.

how do you tell which songs suck

For this band it's easy.

"Is this a song that only Charly Bliss could write?"

If the answer is yes, then hold on to your butt.

If the answer is no, then this sucks and why are they doing this??

feel like the great thing about this song is how the bridge completely takes over the middle of it

i don't think i'm a fan of this one : /

i like this a lot, the progression and accumulation is really satisfying

can't imagine complaining about the guitars on this one, at least

Here's my main gripe, and it may make sense or it may not, but apart from the songwriting itself on the first album, the thing that hooked me so deep to it is that everything they were doing just felt they were a conduit for pure crunchy pop rock energy captured from the ether. Nothing about it sounded like *work*, like these songs were birthed, fully formed and any and all fine-tuning was unnecessary. Ten perfect musical prizes.

Chatroom, especially, but Capacity as well, sound like the portal closed. They sound plotted, sculpted, and engineered to be *a sound*. And it comes through abundantly clear.

I dunno. The immediacy and impulsiveness is missing. If that makes any sense.

They're ostensibly fine songs, well-written, etc. They don't even sound phoned-in or anything. They did a good job with them.

They just don't kick me in the guts.

yeah I wouldn't say either song sucks exactly, I'd still rather listen to them than half the singles out this year, but there is a bit of sophomore slump to them

meh.
maybe album #3 will align with my taste more again.

album 2 isn't even out yet!!

but the direction seems clear, no?

JF otm. Neither of these songs are bad, but they also sound like they could have been made by a gazillion other bands. I loved the energy of Guppy.

I like this band a lot but I'm not convinced the first album is as wildly original or distinctive as is being made out here.

the first album isn't wildly original at all but it did feel distinctive enough in how good it was at the particular power pop sound it was aiming for

the new songs are enjoyable enough but i agree with those that feel they don't really capture what made the debut so good

This band was never very original; in fact Guppy remains wildly overrated. However, "Chatroom" is ace. I love it when plain-jane indie bands swing for the pop fences like this.

Lemme ask you this: do you prefer your music made with considered precision or more of a spark of immediacy?

Despite the fact I'm a huge Def Leppard fan, I generally get more of a kick from the latter.

These songs (and this album?) seem to be the product of the former, and that's the opposite of what I found so great about them.

About Charly Bliss, that is.