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10 Best Songs of the Week: Yard Act, Grandaddy, bar Italia, Wings of Desire, and More

Plus Future Islands, Charly Bliss, Girl Ray, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Oct 27, 2023

Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scott Dransfield, all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 10 this week. More

Oct 24, 2023

Charly Bliss have shared a new song, “I Need a New Boyfriend,” via an amusing music video. They have also launched a dating site of sorts so that their fans can find a new boyfriend (or girlfriend). More

Jun 21, 2023

New York indie pop group, Charly Bliss, reenter the music scene after a four year hiatus with a music video for their latest single, “You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore.” More

9 Best Songs of the Last Two Weeks: HAIM, Little Dragon and Moses Sumney, Taylor Swift, and More

Plus Julia Jacklin, The Besnard Lakes, Anna Burch, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Dec 18, 2020

Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. More

Dec 17, 2020

Charly Bliss have joined forces with Toronto band PUP for a new and currently relevant holiday song, “It’s Christmas and I Fucking Miss You.” The video for the song features socially distanced footage of individual band members from a plethora of sources, including Zoom meetings and phone footage. More

Oct 30, 2019

Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, back in May via Barsuk. It was our Album of the Week and you can stream it here. Now they have surprise released a new EP, Supermoon, featuring five new songs recorded during the sessions for Young Enough. More

Oct 09, 2019

Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, back in May via Barsuk. Now they have stopped by NPR Music to perform three songs as part of their Tiny Desk Concert series and they were accompanied by a string section. More

Charly Bliss Share New Video for “Young Enough”

Young Enough Out Now via Barsuk

Jun 12, 2019

Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, last month via Barsuk. It was our Album of the Week and you can stream it here. Now they have shared a video for the album’s title track, “Young Enough.” More

Album of the Week: Charly Bliss

HÆLOS and Clinic Are Runner-ups (Plus Stream New Albums from Mac DeMarco, Maps, The Get Up Kids, and More)

May 10, 2019

Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, today via Barsuk and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More

10 Best Songs of the Week: Pixx, Kelly Lee Owens, Summer Camp, Alex Lahey, and More

Plus Flying Lotus, Africa Express, Alex Cameron, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

May 10, 2019

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We worried we were going to be able to come up with a Top 8 this week, but a couple of album tracks were able to round out the list.

May 10, 2019

Charly Bliss have released a new album, Young Enough, today via Barsuk. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Today we posted our rave review of Young Enough and you can read that as well. More

12 Best Songs of the Week: Black Belt Eagle Scout, Hayden Thorpe, Aldous Harding, and More

Plus Tame Impala, Amason, Wand, Clinic, Mark Ronson and Lykke Li, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Apr 12, 2019

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We were a bit indecisive this week. There were lots of new tracks to sort through and lots of good ones, but none that immediately screamed #1 Song of the Week. But then we realized there was actually a clear winner after-all. More

Charly Bliss Share Video for New Song “Hard to Believe”

Young Enough Due Out May 10 via Barsuk

Apr 10, 2019

Charly Bliss are releasing a new album, Young Enough, on May 10 via Barsuk. Now they have shared another new song from the album, “Hard to Believe,” via a video for it. More

12 Best Songs of the Week: The National, Foals, Penelope Isles, Bedouine, and More

Plus Vampire Weekend, Strand of Oaks, Glen Hansard, Local Natives, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Mar 08, 2019

We’ve got another supersized Songs of the Week this week, with a Top 12 instead of the regular Top 10. Like last week we could’ve gotten it down to 10, but it felt wrong to leave out the bottom two. It was a near tie for the top two songs this week. More

Charly Bliss Share Twisted Video for New Song “Chatroom”

Young Enough Due Out May 10 via Barsuk

Mar 06, 2019

Charly Bliss are releasing a new album, Young Enough, on May 10 via Barsuk. Now they have shared another new song from the album, “Chatroom,” via a video for it that stars frontwoman Eva Hendricks as the member of a cult. More

10 Best Songs of the Week: Wand, Idlewild, Barrie, Charly Bliss, SOAK, and More

Plus The Love Language, Foxygen, These New Puritans, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Feb 08, 2019

This week’s Songs of the Week was almost just a Top 8. However two fun, but seriously inessential, songs from the Lego Movie 2 soundtrack skated in at the bottom of the list. Veteran Scottish rockers Idlewild surprised us with an interesting new song, even though we admittedly haven’t paid much attention to their last few albums. More

Charly Bliss Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “Capacity”

Young Enough Due Out May 10 via Barsuk; Video Directed by Michelle Zauner (aka Japanese Breakfast)

Feb 08, 2019

Charly Bliss have announced a new album, Young Enough, and shared a video for its first single, “Capacity.” Young Enough is due out May 10 via Barsuk. Michelle Zauner (aka Japanese Breakfast) directed the “Capacity” video, which was shot by Adam Kolodny. Watch it below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as their upcoming tour dates. More




Reviews

Dec 02, 2019

Earlier this year, Charly Bliss’ sophomore record Young Enough delivered a polished, near-perfect makeover of the sweet and rowdy power pop Eva Hendricks and co. debuted just two years ago. More

May 10, 2019

With 2017’s debut album, Guppy, boasting indie disco floor-filler “Ruby,” New York City’s Charly Bliss reintroduced the pop tunes to post-grunge with great and widely praised effect. A brief and brisk album, bristling with scratchy guitar and thundering drum parts, it introduced the world to Eva Hendricks’ honeyed vocals and contrastingly caustic worldview. More