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Album Of The Week: Charly Bliss Young Enough

12:10 PM EDT on May 7, 2019

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Eva Hendricks has bars. Two years ago, when Hendricks' band Charly Bliss came out blasting with their debut album, Guppy, it was easy to miss some of those bars. They got lost in the frantic sugar rush of the band's ragged, fired-up power pop. But when you got used to those hooks, these beautifully crafted lyrical gems were sitting there, waiting for you. "I laughed when your dog died, it is cruel but it's true." "I always get dumped on my birthday." "I can't cum and I can't lie / I can't stop making myself cry." This was brutally funny, viscerally evocative early-20s slice-of-life stuff -- a whole lyrical sensibility that hits with some of the same uncomfortable precision of some of the best stand-up comedy.