Candy Opera Rarities 16.12.18
What more can be said about Candy Opera that hasn’t been said in recent weeks and months? The Liverpool band who never got the plaudits their material deserved, whilst Aztec Camera, Prefab Sprout and Echo and The Bunneymen took it all. How times have changed, with Candy Opera’s first ever album 45 Revolutions Per Minute selling out faster than hot cakes leaving the bakery shelves, their 2 nd album released on Firestation Records entitled Rarities should see further musical hot cakes flying from the shelves faster than you can say Roddy Frame’s leather jacket. Matt Mead reviews the album for Louder Than War. Considering Candy Opera’s material when originally created should have been a world changer, it still baffles me every day when I think that in 2018 the world are finally starting to wake up to the sound of this sumptuous sophisticated pop machine. With strong hints of Love Forever Changes and The Beach Boy’s Surf’s Up their songs are crafted with a mixture a...