My Review: The Dark Shadows - Sour Candy

 My Review:

The Dark Shadows - Sour Candy

Sydney is a cloud full of colour, the attraction for souls trying to fly through everyday life with the propensity to smile, in the middle of the turns of fatigued existences but willing to travel in the sun's rays.

Among those who best express all this are certainly three girls with huge hearts and hands capable of conveying positivity even when the topics they deal with have their breath inside disappointment, doubts, requests (rightly kept veiled) for clarity.

The Dark Shadows are back, one song and everything becomes lamplight, ecstasy, amazement in the play of notes full of wind. 

The fairy Brigitte Handley writes words of shattered glass, about a broken relationship, and to do so she travels in depth to extrapolate those elements of relations that can crack the heart, the skin, the meaning of existence.

But, as with many Smiths songs, the supporting music is joyful, full of energy, able to bring us the attitudes typical of the new continent so that we can face it all with great strength.

Ned Wu (drums), Carly Chalker (bass player) and Brigitte Handley (voice, guitar), are back with an intense, melodic, fresh track, a trip with the surfboard over the waves of the Australian sky, to establish a connection between different but well-blended musical genres, in which their propensity to give rhythm and melody their embrace to the 60s, the undeniable source of inspiration for this truly explosive trio, stands out. The result is a vortex rich in easily digestible juices, addictive and with the power to push us to repeated listenings, an adventure inside their coffers that makes us dance, not dreamy for sure, but aware that from a grey-tinged story one can find an incentive to change direction.

With an impetuous start, followed by a pause that shows their sublime qualities, the track arrives at the true beginning of the verse after 44 seconds, and we quickly find ourselves inside the conviction that we needed music like this, passionate and true, stratospheric in its embrace, perfectly produced, without any tension drop.

Sour Candy teaches the meaning of legitimate communication towards those who cause pain, and the answer is a joyful song: hats off!👏❤️🇦🇺

Out on September 6 2022

Alex Dematteis

Musicshockworld

Salford

3 September 2022