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Charly Bliss release a video for “I’m Not Dead”, a highlight from their recently released critically acclaimed new album FOREVER.

“I wrote this song at the start of covid when I thought I was going to die and I was sad that I hadn’t partied more, if this was truly the end“, Eva Hendricks explains. Video director, Charly Bliss’ own Dan Shure, says “We thought this song needed a music video. Eva and I have both become huge fans of Murder She Wrote, so this was the perfect chance to make a fun, creative lyric video. We shot this on an iPhone literally one day after we wrapped the Back There Now video (which was also my birthday). We started writing the song over zoom, alongside K.Flay. Over a year later, as the song went through a few different versions, we finally ended up with this soaring fuzzy power pop hit.”

Plus, Charly Bliss are kicking off their North American tour in support of FOREVER tonight, in Washington, DC. Their energetic and jovial live show, which Pitchfork recently called “a giddy, heart-racing time,” is not to be missed! All tour dates and tickets available on their website.

Charly Bliss today release “Back There Now”, the jaunty final single from their anticipated new album FOREVER, out this Friday! The song arrives with a tongue-in-cheek video directed by the band’s Dan Shure.

“One of the craziest things about getting older is growing away from the things you did when you were young(er) and stupid(er). But then I’ll read something or hear a song that takes me right back to the dramatic insanity of my early twenties love life, and I’m forced to acknowledge the freaky glutton for pain and heartache who’s still somewhere inside of me no matter how deeply I’ve buried her,” Eva Hendricks says of the song.

Dan Shure on the “Back There Now” video: “What originally began as us trying to make a cool video with limited budget, became a sort of deeper meta video about that exact situation. We’re SERVING expensive-looking pop video, but then at the end the facade crumbles. People sometimes think that indie musicians are rich and famous when, in reality, the members of Charly Bliss all have other jobs to support ourselves. In the video you see us on these various modes of transportation and you’re not quite sure what the destination is… but we’re moving! This video was SO fun to direct as a member of the band because we got to both make fun of these tropes of expensive pop videos, while also kind of living that fantasy. It feels very Charly Bliss to me!”

Today, Charly Bliss share “Waiting For You“, the lively and dynamic new single from FOREVER, the band’s highly anticipated new album out August 16.

Eva Hendricks calls it “A love song for my bandmates. While I was separated from Sam, Spencer, & Dan during the pandemic, I remember watching videos of us playing shows and thinking “How could I have taken this for granted?” I couldn’t see how beautiful everything really was and how lucky we were. It was agonizing to be apart for that long but helpful, because I don’t think I’ll ever let myself forget that again.”

The song comes with a video directed by frequent collaborator Henry Kaplan, of which Hendricks says “the room is full of personal little Charly Bliss Easter eggs. Sam’s daughter’s first school photo, a t-shirt I made with my best friend Amanda at the mall when we were 8 years old, birthday cards, letters, and notes. It had to be personal to match how sentimental the lyrics are, and Henry and the whole team worked so hard to make that possible.”

Charly Bliss are taking their energetic live show on the road in support of FOREVER on a headline tour on North America in the fall, and they are also confirmed to appear at Pitchfork Festival London 2024, playing The Garage on Wednesday 6th November. Tickets are available now via the band’s website.

Today, Charly Bliss have shared “Calling You Out”, the addictive new single from their recently announced forthcoming album, FOREVER, out August 16. The song comes with a video directed by Adam Kolodny and inspired by the Beastie Boys “Shake Your Rump” music video from 1989 and Wong Kar-wai’s 1995 film Fallen Angels.

“Falling in love with someone wonderful, I didn’t 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, I’ll 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 “outstanding”, while NPR said it’s “worthy of a placement on The O.C. back in the early 2000s” and Rolling Stone called it a “ballad of the highest order, complete with a saxophone solo and the complex nostalgia that can still strike years after a broken heart.”

Additionally, Charly Bliss have announced a headline US tour this fall. Tickets and dates are on the band’s website.

New York pop savants Charly Bliss are back, and they want their new album Forever, out August 16th, to crush you under the weight of pure feeling. The quartet of Eva Hendricks, Sam Hendricks, Spencer Fox and Dan Shure want to sweep you up in a hurricane of heartbreak. And the album’s powerful lead single “Nineteen“, released today alongside a video directed by Henry Kaplan, does just that.

“I’ll always be fascinated by love and relationships that don’t quite work and bring tsunamis of heartbreak. The further away I am from it, the kind of love that bashes you against the rocks just as often as it carries you over waves of manic joy, the easier it is to see the full scope of it. First love is crazy,” Eva Hendricks says of the song.

Forever, produced by Jake Luppen (Hippo Campus) and Caleb Wright (Samia) along with the band’s Sam Hendricks, is full of the band’s biggest, brightest power pop yet, but it’s 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 centres in your brain whether you’re listening alone in your headphones or in a packed room at a live show. The songs shimmer and burst, the way fireworks look like they should sound.