Album Review

The Candle Thieves – Sunshine And Other Misfortunes

• 20th Apr 2010

Candle Thieves have to be the 2nd best thing to ever come out of Peterborough, after the supreme Rolls Royce, and well, no one can match that can they?

The duo, bring a gaze of the countryside, and the summer that surrounds it. Album opener, We’re All Gonna Die (Have Fun) is a cheerful tune, that brings the essence of summer of shades to a reality, if only for 3 and a half minutes. It’ puts listeners directly into their view of society and how to live life yet be happy. 2nd up, the appropriately named The Sunshine Song, keeps the atmospheric cheer on high, with their casio-led pop and love immersed lyrics.
My Love Will Clap Its’ Hands For You has a Beatles-esque charm about it, but yet still being poppy and lovely enough to satisfy Owl City. It really is an extraordinarily good mix! Then, in Sharks & Bears we really see their influences opening up, combining the daydreamy pop symphonies and glittery twinkles of glockenspiels and melodicas, it just is a genuine ball of loveliness.

Bright Lights & Dreaming Of Lucy, take us down onto a much slower emotive level, still with the bags of charm of the previous tracks.

The album continues along with the same passion as before, keeping a nice steady, easy to listen feel the whole way through, still touching at the madness of the british countryside, such as Catching Wasps.

But, to my conclusion, Sunshine And Other Misfortunes, is a great album. The whole thing should be sickly, an overload of sweet, but somehow, the charm of it pulls through and makes it perfectly brilliant.

8/10