Charly Bliss Bring Forever and Ever Tour to Exit/In with PRONOUN Tonight, Oct. 8

Though they formally became a band in the early 2010s, the origins of power pop outfit Charly Bliss date back quite a bit earlier, with singer Eva Hendricks and drummer Sam Hendricks growing up in Connecticut, siblings and children of musical parents, and guitarist Spencer Fox meeting Eva in high school, instantly connecting and opting to form a band. They brought in Sam, and, later, bassist Dan Shure (a childhood friend of Spencer’s, who replaced original bassist Kevin Copeland in 2014), and Charly Bliss was born, balancing early influences of punk and grunge with a penchant for shimmering, hook-laden pop, which would earn them the genre label of “bubble-grunge” with the release of debut LP Guppy, in 2017. By that time, the band had relocated to New York, and self-released an early EP, eventually landing them a deal with Barsuk, and earning widespread critical acclaim for Guppy, leading to tours with groups like Veruca Salt and Death Cab for Cutie. For 2019 followup, Young Enough, the group recruited famed producer Joe Chiccarelli, and learned way more into pop, giving their earnest, confessional, and melancholy songs a huge, infectious, impossibly catchy sheen, and again earning universal acclaim and further mainstream recognition, as the band became their full-time job and they continued to tour in bigger and bigger spaces.

The pandemic would, unfortunately, halt the quartet’s momentum a bit, and during that time Eva located halfway across the globe to Australia. After something of a reset, and learning to collaborate remotely for the first time, Charly Bliss began slowly returning with new music over the last couple of years, eventually releasing their third LP, Forever, earlier this summer, more than five years after their last. The wait was worth it though, as the record lands as the band’s most honed, confident, and propulsive effort to date, once again leaning into their signature pop flourish (though with hints of their punk roots), and fusing confessional, raw lyrics with upbeat and inescapable arrangements. In support of that fantastic new album- a definite contender for one of the best of 2024- the band, who made regular stops in Nashville in mid to late 2010s, will return to town for the first time in five years, headlining Exit/In tonight, Oct. 8 with likeminded Brooklyn indie pop artist PRONOUN. Easily one of the coolest shows of the fall, you can still get tickets right here while they last!

Charly Bliss and PRONOUN perform tonight, Oct. 8 at Exit/In. The show is 18+, begins at 8 p.m. (doors at 7 p.m.), and tickets are available for $33.29.