Brooklyn power poppers Charly Bliss recently conquered the stage at 9:30 Club, and Steve Satzberg was there to photograph the show!
This blog post is adapted from a press release.
In August, Charly Bliss released their third studio album, Forever. The band — consisting of brother and sister Eva (lead vocals, guitar) and Sam (drums) Hendricks as well as lead guitarist Spencer Fox and bassist Dan Shure — promptly launched a tour.
The new album dominated the band’s setlist at 9:30 Club on Sept. 5. In the middle of the show, for example, they injected “I’m Not Dead,” one of the album’s buzziest tracks. Charly Bliss recently released a conceptual lyric video for “I’m Not Dead.”
“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,” frontwoman Eva Hendricks said.
Charly Bliss’ own Dan Shure directed the video. He added, “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.”
Watch an official lyric video for “I’m Not Dead” by Charly Bliss on YouTube:
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. Of the record, the band says it “celebrates the big love between the four of us and the life we’ve fought for and built together. The lyrics are head over heels, overflowing with romantic love, friend love, crushes and the hurricanes of feeling that accompany all the massive shifts of growing up. We fell back in love with making music through this record, and you can hear it.”
Catch Charly Bliss on tour near you!
Here are some photos of Charly Bliss performing at 9:30 Club on Sept. 5, 2024. All pictures copyright and courtesy of Steve Satzberg.
