Candidate

".just about the best available bridge between lo-fi Americana

and the woody thrum of archaic Britfolk" - Q Magazine.



Candidate albums and singles are available to download from: INDMILL for £1.25 an album and 45p a single ($1.70 and $0.70 in the USA). 10% from every sale goes to help various charities including Shelter, Samaritans, Save the Children, Act Against Bullying, Action Village India, Kidscape and Cleft.



Candidate are currently in the studio working on material for a new album.

Alex is also working on his instrumental side project: Grampian Horn.



Candidate forage for fragments of old folk songs in British hedgerows, and shove them into cleft sticks driven deep into mud effigies of John Cale. Sometimes they fasten broken Hollies albums to the side of Harry Nilsson with chewing gum stolen from Spacemen 3. Sometimes they just sit and watch bees.



Candidate have had albums nominated as Record of The Year by The Sunday Times, BBC Radio 2 and Rolling Stone.



The theme music to Johnny Vegas' BBC TV series Ideal is 'Song Of The Oss' by Candidate.



Visit our website at www.candidatesite.co.uk