Ahead of their first UK tour, starting in just under a fortnight, NYC’s Charly Bliss have released another excellent music video, this time for “DQ”, one of the stand outs from their critically acclaimed debut album, Guppy. Noisey, who premiered the video today and interviewed the band, called the band’s debut “one of the coolest, most exciting things I’ve heard in a very long time”. Guppy is available now via Barsuk Records.

Additionally, the band has announced the release of Guppy, Issue One; A comic book featuring interpretations of each of the songs on Guppy, with contributions from Michael Deforge, Sadie Dupuis, Tuesday Bassen, and more. Guppy, Issue One, available for pre-order now and due out in late October, comes with an accompanying hand numbered, limited to 500 worldwide orange flexi-disc that features 2 previously unreleased songs: “Golden Age” and “Special.”

Charly Bliss’ debut album, Guppy, got “Best Albums Of The Year So Far” accolades from Rolling Stone, Billboard, NPR, Stereogum, SPIN, The AV Club, Consequence of Sound, UPROXX,FLOOD and Bandcamp.

Their energetic and magnetic live show is not to be missed. All UK dates below:

9/12 – Cardiff, UK – Clwb iFor Bach

9/13 – London, UK – The Old Blue Last (Sold Out)

9/14 – London, UK – The Garage +

9/15 – Liverpool, UK – Studio 2

9/16 – Leeds, UK – Headrow House

9/17 – Glasgow, UK – Hug & Pint

9/19 – Manchester, UK – The Eagle Inn

9/20 – Birmingham, UK – The Sunflower Lounge

+ with Chastity Belt

The band will follow up their UK dates with a North American tour in support of Sub Pop’s Wolf Parade and dates with Death Cab For Cutie