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The Candle Thieves – We're All Going To Die (Have Fun)

• 24th Feb 2010

The Candle Thieves release their debut single, ‘We’re All Going To Die (Have Fun)’ on the March 29th 2010 through Carnival Town Records. It precedes the release of their debut album, ‘Sunshine & Other Misfortunes’ on April 6th.

The Candle Thieves are Scott McEwan and Glockenshiels, a young English duo that painlessly handcraft beguiling, delicate pop music from a box of instruments straight out of Toytown.

Falling from the more creative end of the 163,000 populace of Peterborough, Scott and Glock are at odds with making the best of a bad situation, choosing to channel the importance of tragedy and the subtly of beauty in equal measure.

The endearingly awkward duo, a haze of black rimmed glasses, charity shop threads and impeccable manners have recently signed to Downtown Records in America (Gnarls Barkley, Justice, Miike Snow, White Denim), and already completed two high profile radio sessions despite not yet releasing a note of music across the ocean.

Last year’s download-only “The Sunshine EP” presented both of the band’s musical worlds with the sweetest charm akin to Eels, where sunshine melodies puncture thoughts of despair, all presented with a sartorial elegance and wrapped within The Candle Thieves’ ramshackle casio-led pop.

Friends since loaning out the same library books at college, Scott and Glock study in all things make believe. Their live shows are all-spectral affairs, where glitter dust settles on an array of melodicas, glockenspiels, toy grand pianos, keyboards, and acoustic loveliness, and our maestros conduct a whirlwind of daydream pop symphonies.

“We’re All Going To Die (Have Fun)” is an exuberant fanfair of upbeat key lines, jaunty drums and a huge slice of melodic, joyous pop music. Aided by its bittersweet observation, the wryest of sentiments, and a sense of summer in spring, The Candle Thieves stake their claim as a bright and refreshing British discovery for 2010.