charly bliss: guppy

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.

hey so just to check in we now all agree that the new one fucking owns right? good

Nah, still hate it.

what's the irish phrase? git tae fuck?

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.

I'm a sucker for albums about bad relationships tbqh

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.

Not a day goes by that "Capacity" isn't playing in my head at some point. And also usually "Camera."

"Under You" gets me right in the pit of my self-abnegating heart

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.

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

You're right. Not saying they really go spelunking into the deep, but silby's apparently taking that away from listens to the album.

did I say deep?

"pit of my self-abnegating heart" insinuated as much. Ignore me, though!

The whole of this exchange is very low stakes for me, and I'm really just basing all my objections on the synths lol

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

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

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.

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

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

at first i was indifferent, but this is a grower it seems

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.

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.

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