leseed (Accidental Seabirds, Bone
& Marrow, Thomas Wesley Stern),
the steamy collection kicks off with
“Do You Wanna?,” an intoxicat-
ingly erotic look at having sex and
getting high, kind of like a cross
between “Do Watcha Wanna”
and “What I Like About You.” The
opener also references the band’s
name with the lines, “Changing
the tune, I got a brand new at-
titude. It’s sugary sweet. It might
even rot your teeth.”
The EP’s eroticism also encom-
passes the closing “Fuck Boy,”
a toxic entanglement that finds
an unsuspecting lass infatuated
with an Asbury Park player, a fate
Candy compares to “swimming
with the sharks.” Lead guitarist
Steve Markow plays fantastically
throughout with searing, seething
solos, particularly on this Nirvana-
like menacing but melodic track.
The single, “Happy New Year’s,”
is a lament about a deadbeat ex-
con ex who spends the holiday
in the county jail. “Mr. Good for
Nothin’,” as Candy describes him,
otherwise wastes his time on the
Watch a video for “Fuck Boy” by Candy Cavity
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