Four years ago Charly Bliss delivered a song we’ve been feeling ever since called “Capacity,” and aside from just sounding super fucking magnetic, it was viewed by us and many others as a sort-of rejection of those demanding too much from ourselves while citing the widespread exhaustion and burnout we all now feel on a daily basis. Today (June 21), the New York alt-pop quartet are back with a new single in “You Don’t Even Know Me Anymore,” an effervescent alt-pop bop that’s Eva Hendricks and the boys’ first since the Young Enough era.
It was produced by Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus and Caleb Wright, and maybe there’s an extending storyline playing out here.
“I moved to Australia and felt a million miles away from who I had been in New York. Like I had been reborn happy, carefree, and slightly less pale,” says Hendricks. “I was convinced that I had totally bypassed the ‘wherever you go, there you are’ thing. Lexapro also helped. I think this song is a farewell to how sad and tortured I felt during the Young Enough album cycle.”
She adds: “It’s like the ‘fuck it!’ that you earn after burning your entire life down and starting over. Sam [Hendricks] sent me the track and it felt exactly as joyous and silly and giddy as I felt inside. It came together quickly and set the tone for a new CB era.”
We’re here for it. Cancel all your plans, turn off Slack, and tell everyone “No, sorry, I can’t — I’m listening to the new Charly Bliss.” And put that shit on a bumper sticker or something.