WTSH treasures the ghost-rock goblin pop of Candace, a "power trio" of super-talented women who started out as "Is/Is" in Minneapolis and are now re-named and based in Portland, Oregon. We unreservedly recommend the band's latest full-length New Future.
The most recent Candace release is "On the Way Home," a cover of the Neil Young-penned song that leads off Last Time Around, the third and final record by the classic Los Angeles psychedelic folk-rock combo Buffalo Springfield. The album was originally issued in 1968.
Candace's new cover appears on a benefit comp called Summer of Sad that collects female-fronted bedroom pop and indie folk from around the globe. Put together
by Z Tapes of Bratislav,
Slovakia, it's available on cassette and as a name-your-price download through Bandcamp. Digital
sales benefit "a Slovakian charity organization called Esther who run a
shelter for survivors of domestic abuse."
Right now you can, inexplicably, purchase Z-tapes' complete
digital catalog of forty-six mostly full-length releases for one Euro. Go
figure! The purchase is available through any of the label's Bandcamp pages for its various
releases.
As for Buffalo Springfield, the 1969 collection Retrospective:
Best of Buffalo Springfield provides excellent entry into the band's
variegated, occasionally quite experimental output. This article gives a taste of the project's brief, intense internal history.
