charly bliss: guppy

also imo ppl spoke too soon about the sound change

also imo this album kicks a ton of ass

"hard to believe" as penultimate track is expert sequencing

and in time i will probably prefer this to guppy

<i>and in time i will probably prefer this to guppy</i>

Ok, that sounds serious

I will give this album a fair listen, but I'm still skeptical.

If this were the 90s and Charly Bliss were Letters to Cleo , Guppy would be the cd still in everyone's collections (Aurora Gory Alice) and Young Enough would be the cd in every music store's used bin (Wholesale Meats and Fish).

"Capacity" hits a nerve for me in a very real and specific way and I've gone from being fond of it as a single by a band I really like to easily one of my favourite singles released in a long, long time - I'm very excited to listen to this album

i get the chorus stuck in my head a lot (often while i'm thinking about the big thief album lol)

Guppy would be the cd still in everyone's collections (Aurora Gory Alice) and Young Enough would be the cd in every music store's used bin (Wholesale Meats and Fish).

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, May 8, 2019 6:08 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this seems backwards

Just based on the sampler tracks, this album sounds more appealing to me than Guppy, which I was never really sold on.

this sounds good on first listen but i kinda doubt itll stick with me as much as guppy did

and in time i will probably prefer this to guppy

― american bradass (BradNelson)

I think I already do!

this album sounds more appealing to me than Guppy, which I was never really sold on.

i literally have no idea how this could be

Not feeling this so much. I mean it's not bad but Guppy had a sharper production and better melodies. This is Charly Bliss taking one step forward towards accessibility.

guppy was incredibly accessible though, is the thing?

I love how much bolder Eva's lyrics are overall.

staring at cars
selling your art
feeling so sure you're waking up tomorrow

better son or daughter
drunk walking home
making the choice to be completely alone

Guppy would be the cd still in everyone's collections (Aurora Gory Alice) and Young Enough would be the cd in every music store's used bin (Wholesale Meats and Fish).

lol the latter is a WAY better album!

Yes but this is even more friendly and poppy, with softer guitars and keyboards.

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i guess but i still feel all their sharpness in stuff like "camera," "bleach," "hard to believe," etc.

"camera" is maybe the best song here besides the title track

It's a good record. But Guppy is better. First impression.i might change my mind after a few spins who knowd

i think there's a strokes song that really resembles "blown to bits"

overall this album doesn't have quite the same sense of dynamics or density of hooks (but that comes with the lower tempos generally) which were part of what made the debut so good

OTM

oh it's "all the time" of all things, they have pretty similar choruses

i think this record is way more dynamic than the debut

less within the songs themselves than from song-to-dog i guess, but this album has a really beautiful arc

song-to-song* lol

oh man, we're not gonna agree on this one, huh?

anyway, _for me_ it's pleasurably boring. It's okay and I get the appeal but as someone how still puts on Guppy to heighten the mood two years later, I can't see how this record would ever come close. Completely different mood, and not one I necessarily needed from Charly Bliss.

this is really bizarre to me, i guess we’re not hearing the same record!

When I listen to Guppy I hear a young band cramming a ton of interesting ideas into their songs. However for me the listening experience is a bit tiring at times. Young Enough is less fatiguing on my ears. Course I’m old so ymmv.

just one song but “over you” doesn’t strike me as a distinct mood from guppy at all

like i don’t mean to split hairs this much but this album is a same-band-with-new-tricks situation imo and there’s v little to complain about bc the new tricks are so well integrated, plus there are plenty of guppy-style bangers

this is otm ^

it's more dynamic than guppy, less densely hooky (but still hooky), moodier and a little less one-note (although that one note on guppy was as good as it gets).

they've basically followed up an incredible debut by doing something that's really hard: make a second record that is still "them" but also incorporates some new ideas, shows a little range/ambition and points them in a direction going forward.

it's impressive! does it all add up to "better than guppy"? time will tell (but that is an insanely high bar, btw)

("under you" and "hard to believe" rule)

... is "bleach" in 6/4? i love it deeply

the way eva's voice ascends and descends according to the synth melody is wonderful, it's like "scare u" x1000

This is fucking brilliant

I feel like if you loved "Guppy" because it was a great pop-punk album then this isn't the album for you but if you loved it because of the great lyrics and hooks and wanted to see them go bigger, bolder and more confident, then this is everything you could want from them

IT’S GONNA BREAK MY HEART TO SEE IT BLOWN TO BITS

alfred would like this record. alfred to thread

guppy is possibly the best power pop album ive ever heard but young enough is just pretty good

you were still just a kid
you’re a beautiful boy
crushing cigarettes just to prove a point

^^ my fav part of the title track rn

"under you" feels like a weak spot strengthened by its placement but otherwise i think i already like young enough (even) more than guppy, what a perfect progression of songs... one that cldn't fit the soft combustibility of something like "glitter", so i'm just glad we have both albums

i do wish it wasn't so in-the-red production-wise

you were still just a kid
you’re a beautiful boy
crushing cigarettes just to prove a point

^^ my fav part of the title track rn

― american bradass (BradNelson)

Yeah, I've had this in my head a lot recently. I think this might be their best song.

People make some OTT claims for Guppy considering its a pretty great piece of 90s nostalgia and that's about it, but it clearly has a fizz that this one lacks.

The production does the new one no favours, blowing the sound up like this makes everything feel that little bit emptier.

Blown To Bits is terrific though.

Guppy really was as good as this sort of thing gets for me, a step above all the 90s bands they're drawing so heavily from

oh my god y’all this album is better than guppy

i mean i shared y'all's reaction when i first heard "capacity" and "chatroom" but i hear that emptiness as space and atmosphere now, plus these songs are fucking great, i think their songwriting advanced considerably