• Record Label: Barsuk
  • Release Date: May 10, 2019
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
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  1. May 10, 2019
    82
    It’s time well-spent: slow-burning, dynamic, emotionally resonant and representative of Charly Bliss in 2019.
  2. 80
    Young Enough is better than its predecessor in every way, and its predecessor is very good. Every song should be a gigantic sing-along single, each with its own level of catharsis. If more pop songs had Charly Bliss’s sense of craft, pop music would be in a much better place.
  3. May 24, 2019
    80
    Circling around Eva’s sharp, twangy vocals, the band’s second album is a gargantuan step forward, and one packed full of iron-clad mantras.
  4. Q Magazine
    May 14, 2019
    80
    A record whose combination of chirpy choruses and sharp, dark lyricism is difficult to resist. [Jul 2019, p.106]
  5. May 14, 2019
    80
    Young Enough is a big pop influenced record that rings authentic and hits every mark both lyrically and musically--an album to dance the pain away.
  6. May 13, 2019
    80
    Building off a simple guitar note, the record’s slow-burning title track is perhaps the band’s greatest accomplishment yet.
  7. May 10, 2019
    80
    Ultimately, Young Enough outshines a promising debut, delivering a steady mix of summery earworms and angst.
  8. 80
    Young Enough is a pop album that just happens to rock.
  9. May 10, 2019
    80
    This is one of those rare records that sounds like a Greatest Hits compilation and simultaneously a summer mixtape while, by the time winter rolls around, we'll be digging deeper into the reflective, cracked mirror lyrics to provide us with a little familiar, melancholic comfort.
  10. Jun 19, 2019
    70
    There's also a strong pop influence, an element that can interfere with Young Enough's otherwise snappy sequencing—both Capacity and Chatroom incorporate an electro-pop bounce that, though competent, feel more suited for an entirely new project. Still, Hendricks' love-stricken admissions never go unnoticed.
  11. May 10, 2019
    70
    Young Enough is poppier than its predecessor but not always as immediately catchy. Sometimes that feels intentional and it can often be a good thing, often slowing down the band’s torpedo tunefulness to negotiate trauma in real time. It’s the mark of a band deepening the feelings of real personal struggle beneath the churning guitars and sheer melodies.
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Negative: 0 out of 25
  1. May 15, 2019
    7
    Charly Bliss' new album "Young Enough" takes conventional pop rock and dials it up to a ten. The result is a gorgeous and melodic sound thatCharly Bliss' new album "Young Enough" takes conventional pop rock and dials it up to a ten. The result is a gorgeous and melodic sound that revitalizes an aging genre. Full Review »
  2. Jan 17, 2020
    4
    I don't know if I'M the one taking crazy pills, but this record is a marked downgrade from the band's previous efforts. Where earlierI don't know if I'M the one taking crazy pills, but this record is a marked downgrade from the band's previous efforts. Where earlier recordings had character and personality, this record sounds like the band has decidedly taken a chill pill. And not the good kind of chill pill that might suggest a maturity, but rather a boring, uninspired, and frankly half baked batch of songs that sound incomplete and tuneless.

    The song "Under You" is basically what Green Day has been doing for the last twenty years that nobody cares about. The song "Camera" is frustrating, as the lyrics interrupt what could otherwise be a decent track.
    "Fighting in the Dark" is a monotone nothing keyboard track with equally nothing monotone vocals.
    "Young Enough" is a contemporary christian/praise & worship song.
    "Bleach" sounds like your nephew tinkering around on a casio keyboard in the basement on a rainy day with nothing else to do, until the song eventually gets a little better, but far from anything I could imagine anybody loving.
    Usually the singles are the worst tracks, but here, Chatroom and Capacity are real highlights, with Eva's old convictions, both lyrically and musically coming out.
    All in all, going from Guppy to Young Enough feels like that really funny, quirky, off-beat friend you grew up with suddenly was forced on pills and lost all lust for life. *sad*
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  3. May 17, 2019
    10
    Contender for AOTY. Its got pop bangers, slow jams and most importantly character