charly bliss: guppy

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"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

president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 2 August 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link

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

two months pass...

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

american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link

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, 6 November 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link

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

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

one year passes...

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

Indexed, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:00 (two years ago) link

Young Enough is such a great album.

o. nate, Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link

two years pass...

new music tomorrow, yippee skippee!

soup of magpies (geoffreyess), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:28 (ten months 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 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

Hard no

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 21 June 2023 11:37 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

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

ufo, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 12:30 (ten months ago) link

you just wait lol

i'm talking about its slightly-superior forebears mind

imago, Wednesday, 21 June 2023 12:33 (ten months 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 (ten months ago) link

four months pass...

jfc why are they so terrible now

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

ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 26 October 2023 15:17 (five 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 (five months ago) link


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