Candy is Working on Something in the Studio with Kurt Ballou
I still think that the new Candy album from a few months ago, It’s Inside You, is a prime contender for album of the year. The blending of hardcore with electronic elements, turning hyperpop on its head to create a new genre called hypercore, is just brilliant. And it’s hard to deny that “Love Like Snow” is the perfect combination of abrasiveness and stunning beauty. Sure, you can say that album isn’t fantastic, but only because this is America (where I’m writing from, anyway) and you’re technically allowed to say a lot of things that aren’t factually true. You can say Blink-182 is a deathcore band and nobody is allowed to put you in jail for that, so certainly, you can be as wrong as you want about It’s Inside You. But apparently Candy refuse to rest on their outstanding release, because it seems they’re already in the studio again with one of the great hardcore producers out there.
Converge guitarist and hardcore/metalcore producing great, Kurt Ballou, mentioned on Instagram yesterday that he was working on some new material with Candy. He posted some pictures in the studio, and gave the following caption:
“Had a nice week tracking and mixing some incredible new stuff with my pals.”
Candy just put out one of the best albums of 2024 about two and a half months ago, and now they’re already at the tracking stage of new material? Damn, this band moves damn fast. Considering Ballou’s nearly 30 years of experience producing bands from Cave In to The Hope Conspiracy to Paint it Black to High On Fire to Code Orange to The Dillinger Escape Plan and so many more, it’ll be interesting to see what Candy puts out with Ballou’s assistance. It’s pretty much guaranteed to be great.
But while you’re waiting for that, you can check out Candy on tour at the following dates:
Candy Tour Dates 2024
09/19 Long Island, NY @ Amityville Music Hall
09/20 Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
09/21 Columbus, OH @ Dirty Dungarees
09/22 Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
09/24 Minneapolis, MN @ Underground Music Cafe
09/25 Kansas City, MO @ recordBar
09/26 Colorado Springs, CO @ The Black Sheep %
09/27 Salt Lake City, UT @ Stateside Scooters
09/28 Las Vegas, NV @ American Legion Post 8 +
09/29 San Fernando, CA @ Midnight Hour +
10/01 Pomona, CA @ The Haven +
10/03 San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar +
10/04 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress +
10/06 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger #
10/07 Houston, TX @ The End #
10/08 Memphis, TN @ Growlers #
10/09 Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR #
10/10 Charlotte, NC @ The Milestone #
10/11 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506 #
10/12 Richmond, VA @ The Warehouse #
+ = w/ support from Extinguish
# = w/ support from Gumm
% = w/ support from ZULU
