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Unable to describe their music with existing terms, Candidate makes up its own.

When it came time to attempt to describe the sound of their second album, Brooklyn band Candidate found itself at a rare loss for words. Or, perhaps, to put more accurately, with an overabundance of them. The sound, while familiar, was not quite like anything that had been made before. The band said, “Essentially it is a combination of post-punk, krautrock and shoegaze with late ‘80’s/early ‘90’s American indie and grunge and Britpop, i.e. The Replacements meets U2 meets Neu! meets Sunny Day Real Estate, all making out in one superawesome rock make out party.” They called it “dreamrock.”

As Newdust said, “Basically they couldn’t fit their new sound into one particular sub-genre so they came up with one themselves. It’s a bold move, but they pull it off effortlessly. Because after listening to their latest single, “April Again”, I can’t come up with a better genre to describe them. This is dreamrock, plain and simple. Fresh, fuzzy, lush, vibrant, psychedelic dreamrock. We might be dealing with the next chillwave here folks, so strap yourselves in: summer 2012 is officially here.” Risk and Consequence even went to so far as to say it is “a sound so different that it has no equal.”

The band has released the first single, “April Again,” off of their forthcoming album, “Psychic Dissonance from the Unself,” and is giving the song away in exchange for just an e-mail address. Read the rest of this entry →