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TRACK PREMIERE: SUGAR CANDY MOUNTAIN “IN MY OWN WORLD”
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Oakland’s Sugar Candy Mountain is floating further and further into the psychic stratosphere on their new “In My Own World,” which is a song that responds for feelings of claustrophobia by opening up wider and wider. It’s hard to tell if there’s more vapor than wave in play here, but either way this is a single fit for the gentlest 80s private-press album waiting to be discovered. The band themselves mention aspects of the Delfonics and Toro Y Moi, but there’s no need to get caught on specifics: “In My Own World” is about escape for escape’s sake, and we don’t want anything to get in the way. Says guitarist/singer Ash Reiter:
“Whether we’re on the road, in the studio or on stage, Will and I spend almost every minute together. At times so much togetherness can become claustrophobic. You begin to lose sense of your own boundaries, [and] it becomes hard to tell where you begin and the other person ends. I have found that it is important to carve out time to live and create in my own separate world. Although written collaboratively, this song explores the idea that love needs space to grow and deepen.”
Get “In My Own World” (with art by Jess Willa Wheaton) here, and take a peek at their Do Right full-length before you go. Sugar Candy Mountain will play Wed., Feb. 27, at San Francisco’s Bottom of the Hill, and then take off for a two big European and West Coast tours this spring—full dates below!
Euro/UK Tour:
March 13 – Winterthur, Switzerland – Albani
March 14 – Karlsruhe, Germany – Kohi
March 15 – Freiburg, Germany – Swamp
March 16 – Stuttgart, Germany – Psych In Bloom Festival
March 17 – Offenbach, Germany – Hafen2
March 18 – Berlin, Germany – Auster Club
March 19 – Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
March 20 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Musikcafeeen
March 21 – Goteborg, Sweden – Fangelset
March 22 – Stockholm, Sweden – Landet
March 23 – Malmo, Sweden – Plan B
March 25 – Odense, Denmark – Posten
March 26 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – Paradiso
March 27 – Groningen, The Netherlands – Vera
March 28 – Antwerp, Belgium – Het Bos
March 29 – Brighton, UK – Loud Shirt Brewery
March 30 – Leicester, UK – Soundhouse
March 31 – Bristol, UK – The Crofters Right
April 1 – London, UK – The Lexington
April 2 – Paris, France – Supersonic
April 3 – Dudingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn
April 4 – Lyon, France – Le Farmer
April 5 – Barcelona, Spain – Barcelona Psych Fest
April 6 – Madrid, Spain – Fun House
April 7 – Toulouse, France – Pavillons Sauvages
April 8 – Perpignan, France – Drinkshop
April 10 – Lugano, Switzerland – San Domenico
April 11 – Ravenna, Italy – Bronson
April 12 – Zagreb, Croatia – Tvornica Kulture
April 13 – Budapest, Hungary – Durer Kert
April 14 – Munich, Germany – Import Export
April 15 – Dresden, Germany – Ostpol
West Coast Dates:
May 10 – Los Angeles, CA – The Echo
May 11 – Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club
May 13 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir
May 14 – Vancouver, BC – Static Jupiter
May 15 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern
May 16 – Spokane, WA – The Bartlett
May 17 – Bellingham, WA – The Shakedown
June 15 – Leggett, CA – Hickey Fest