The Candle Thieves are Scott McEwan and Glockenshiels, a young English duo that painlessly handcraft the warmest blend of sunshine and melancholy from a box of instruments straight out of Toytown.
Falling from the 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 Sunshine EP” presents both of these 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’ endearing, 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.
‘The Sunshine Song’ tumbles over its own casio-pop jauntiness and delicate, alt-anthemic sensibilities, whilst ‘My Love Will Clap Its Hands For You’ is a haze of softly chiming synth-lines and scattered beats looped to the sound of the duo’s harmonies, and an eruption of strings. At the other end of the spectrum finds ‘Lonely Lonely Lonely’, a soothing lullaby of glockenspiel and keyboard backing, with the spotlight hanging on Glock’s isolated, reverb-soaked vocal.
It marks a charming introduction to this endearingly gawky twosome, already shambolically lost inside their carefully cultivated Oxfam suits, and bittersweet pop observations.
The Sunshine EP:
The Sunshine Song/My Love Will Clap Its Hands For You/The State That I’m In/Lonely Lonely Lonely
www.myspace.com/thecandlethieves
Falling from the 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 Sunshine EP” presents both of these 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’ endearing, 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.
‘The Sunshine Song’ tumbles over its own casio-pop jauntiness and delicate, alt-anthemic sensibilities, whilst ‘My Love Will Clap Its Hands For You’ is a haze of softly chiming synth-lines and scattered beats looped to the sound of the duo’s harmonies, and an eruption of strings. At the other end of the spectrum finds ‘Lonely Lonely Lonely’, a soothing lullaby of glockenspiel and keyboard backing, with the spotlight hanging on Glock’s isolated, reverb-soaked vocal.
It marks a charming introduction to this endearingly gawky twosome, already shambolically lost inside their carefully cultivated Oxfam suits, and bittersweet pop observations.
The Sunshine EP:
The Sunshine Song/My Love Will Clap Its Hands For You/The State That I’m In/Lonely Lonely Lonely
www.myspace.com/thecandlethieves
