Charly Bliss have been confirmed to appear at Pitchfork London 2024 this November.
The Brooklyn quartet will play at The Garage on Wednesday 6th November. Ticket pre-sale begins here Wednesday 5th June at 10am before going on general sale Friday 7th June at 10am.
Charly Bliss also just shared ‘Calling You Out,’ the addictive new single from their recently announced forthcoming album, FOREVER, out August 16 on Lucky Number. On Friday The Guardian made it their top single pick of the week (“the perfect chorus will have you reaching for the hairbrush-mic”) and the song comes with a video directed by Adam Kolodny, inspired by the Beastie Boys ‘Shake Your Rump’ music video from 1989 and Wong Kar-waiâs 1995 film Fallen Angels.
“Falling in love with someone wonderful, I didnât know how to not fall into the same bullshit that was part of all my previous relationships – namely jealousy. I wasted a lot of time at the beginning trying to poke holes, to see if it was all for real. I think I was trying to protect myself, Iâll find the catch before the catch finds me! But there was no catch,” Eva Hendricks explains.
Last month the band announced FOREVER with a video for lead single ‘Nineteen.’ Jack Antonoff took to social media and praised the song, calling it âoutstanding,â while NPR said itâs âworthy of a placement on The O.C. back in the early 2000sâ and Rolling Stone called it a âballad of the highest order, complete with a saxophone solo and the complex nostalgia that can still strike years after a broken heart.â
Additionally, Charly Bliss is announcing a North American headline tour for September and October. Tickets are available tomorrow, Friday May 31 at 10 am local time via the bandâs website.
FOREVER, produced by Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus) and Caleb Wright (Samia) along with the bandâs Sam Hendricks, is full of the bandâs biggest, brightest power pop yet, but itâs an evolution, not a departure. FOREVER crams a lifetime of feeling, decades of friendship, and years of craft into a batch of sonically tight but emotionally vast songs that activate the pleasure centers in your brain. The songs shimmer and burst, the way fireworks look like they should sound.
Charly Bliss – Forever album tracklisting
1. Tragic
2. Calling You Out
3. Back There Now
4. Nineteen
5. In Your Bed
6. Iâm Not Dead
7. How Do You Do It
8. I Donât Know Anything
9. Here Comes The Darkness
10. Waiting For You
11. Easy To Love You
12. Last First Kiss
When Charly Bliss sat down to write new music, they started with a simple directive: âIt has to be fun.â When the writing process began in 2020, the world was in the midst of, among other things, a fun deficit, the kind of endorphin drought that only a new Charly Bliss record could remedy. âFun is our natural state,â says guitarist Spencer Fox. âNo one has more fun than us and no one loves each other more than us.â On the road, the quartet spends all their time together âgiggling and being stupid.â Not surprising from a band made up of lifelong friends, including a pair of siblings. Eva describes the bond with her bandmates as âthe biggest relationship of her life.â
Still, the rigorous experience of recording, releasing, and touring their second album, 2019âs Young Enough, left the band feeling creatively overcooked, the result of wanting everything about the record and shows to be perfect. Itâs a feeling they were intent on shedding as they commenced work on their third LP. A pair of non-album singles (‘I Need a New Boyfriend,’ ‘You Donât Even Know Me Anymore‘) released last year had the band and their fans primed for a new full-length album.
While working on previous albums, Charly Bliss had done their songwriting in a room together. But the Forever writing sessions began with Eva halfway across the planet in Australia. Ironically, the remote writing process brought the bandmates closer than ever. With no deadlines to hit or tour dates on the books, Fox, Shure, and the two Hendrices (pluralized like âmatrixâ) took their time generating new songs. With no ticking clock, the band felt free to explore and experiment.
Eva recorded demos on her phone while sitting in a parked rental car. Several time zones away, Sam jotted down ideas in the middle of the night. Unsurprisingly, the record is suffused with a sense of sleeplessness. The jittery feeling of new love. The raw insomnia brought on by heartache. The late nights spent out (or in) with friends new and old. The full-body cringe of remembering who you used to be and learning how to love that person. You know, the kind of big feelings that make it hard to shut your brain off. Front to back, the album plays like a love letter to love letters. It was all made possible by the band giving itself space to breathe, for the individuals who make up Charly Bliss to grow together despite the distance between them.