New Single from Charly Bliss. First Album Finally Coming 4/21.

Photo: Shervin Lainez

"Glitter"

Charly Bliss are kind of everything I love in music. Their songs feature noisy, over-driven guitars paired with Eva Hendricks's bubblegum pop vocals. Every song is about 3 minutes of crunchy, sing along, pop... ...uh... ...bliss.

The band have been hanging out there in my peripheral vision for a while now. A set at Northside Festival here. A benefit single there. But, up to this point, Charly Bliss have only put out singles and 2014's Soft Serve EP. Yesterday, the band announced that their first full-length, Guppy, is coming from Barsuk Records on April 21st.

The long gestation period -- Charly Bliss have been a band for 6 years. -- seems to have stemmed from a bit of an identity crisis. "We basically had to come to terms with the fact that we are, at heart, a pop band," says guitarist Spencer Fox. That's fine by me, especially considering that what they've settled on sounds like single "Glitter." It's an upbeat song about staying in a relationship even though you kind of hate it and know you may be settling. Charly Bliss aren't the first band to wrap some downer-ish sentiments in day-glo paper, but they do it so well.

Charly Bliss also announced some tour dates that have them swinging back this way with shows in Brooklyn and Manhattan on 4/4 and 4/5. It's just started to hit me that SXSW is coming up quickly, and I'm pretty excited that I should be able to catch them down in Austin as well.



Charly Bliss on Tour

3/11 - Savannah, GA @ Savannah Stopover
3/15-3/18 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
3/29 - Kingston, ON @ The Grad Club *
3/30 - Ottawa, ON @ Zaphod Beeblebrox *
3/31 - Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern *
4/1 - Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz *
4/3 - Allston, MA @ Brighton Music Hall *
4/4 - Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade NYC *
4/5 - New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge *
4/6 - Baltimore, MD @ The Ottobar *
4/7 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café *
4/8 - Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups *
4/26 - Richmond, VA @ Strange Matter
4/27 - Raleigh, NC @ Neptune's Parlor
4/28 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
4/29 - Nashville, TN @ The High Watt
4/30 - St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway
5/1 - Omaha, NE @ Reverb Lounge
5/2 - Denver, CO @ High Dive
5/4 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
5/5 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
5/7 - San Francisco, CA @ The Rickshaw Stop
5/8 - Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
5/9 - Seattle, WA @ The Vera Project
5/12 - Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
5/13 - Chicago, IL @ Schubas
5/14 - Lansing, MI @ Mac's
5/15 - Cleveland, OH @ Beachland Tavern
5/17 - Philadelphia, PA @ Boot and Saddle
6/15 - Washington, DC @ Black Cat
6/16 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine

* with Operators