After announcing the lead track from their new album several months ago, we are delighted to return to the full album from post-punk new romantics Candy Coffins. Titled ‘Once Do It With Feeling’, this collection offers 10 tracks that are particularly stellar. Highlight tracks include Seaside Girls, The Falling Man, Every Day A Fresh Atrocity, A Victory Like This and Another Kiss, although the full album is worth listening to over and over again.
Released two years after their ‘Somehow Misplaced’ EP, this album is emotionally and sonically loaded. A lot of bands have been referenced in relation to Candy Coffins’ music and we definitely can agree with a handful of them – The Cure, Psychedelic Furs and Echo & The Bunnymen, in particular. But there are also other bands who come to mind in terms of immediate comparisons, not the least of which would be Toronto post-punk duo TRAITRS, Interpol, Vancouver’s ACTORS and, at times, even Talk Talk.
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“The full album chronicles a relationship from the onset of the first crack to its complete crumbling dissolution. All the feelings and emotions of tumult are captured here, from both persons’ perspectives,” says frontman-songwriter Jame Lathren.
Earlier, the band released two singles – ‘Every Day A Fresh Atrocity’, exploring the dark corners and haunting suffocation of a broken relationship, and ‘Seaside Girls’, paying tribute to the playful abandon of youth with a healthy dose of indie rock.
Vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Jame Lathren formed Candy Coffins in 2018 in Columbia, South Carolina. A cultural outcast, his resilience, sensitivity and hyper-awareness of his emotional state would ultimately permeate his own music, getting right to the heart of the emotions surrounding the human condition.
After disbanding his previous band Crown The Cake, he formed Candy Coffins with hometown guitar legend Tom Alewine (Bachelors of Art), followed by seasoned music scene veterans Alex Mabrey on bass and Justin Purdy on keys, and former Iron & Wine touring drummer Jonathan Bradley. With dynamic and textured approach, the band’s trademark lush sound bolsters Lathren’s emotive songwriting and delivery.
With tasteful nods to Joy Division, The Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, The Afghan Whigs and The Cult, as well as contemporaries like The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spiritualized, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Interpol, Candy Coffins’ sound is dark and emotionally restless, but with elements of hope and elation. Defiantly unique, their sound is a welcome respite from musical mediocrity.
‘Every Day A Fresh Atrocity’ is out now, available everywhere digitally, including Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp, where it can be ordered directly from the band. On October 29, the band will play their album release show at the venue ‘In The Addition’ in their hometown of Columbia, South Carolina.
CREDITS
Jame Lathren – vocals, guitars
Tom Alewine : guitars
Alex Mabrey – bass
Jonathan Bradley – drums, percussion
Justin Purdy – keys
Additional instrumentation by John Furr
Additional vocals by Margaret Rose Champagne
All songs by Jame Lathren (BMI) © 2022
Produced & Engineered by John Furr at Pow Pow Sound (Columbia, SC)
Mixed by David Barbe at Chase Park Transduction (Athens, GA)
Mastered by Dave Harris at Studio B Mastering (Charlotte, NC)
Single cover artwork by Jame Lathren
Album cover artwork by Phoenix Lathren and and Tom Alewine
Artist photo by Lauren Ellis
Listen, swoon and dream with South Carolina’s Candy Coffins
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