{"id":894,"date":"2011-05-15T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2011-05-15T21:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T02:36:27","slug":"candy-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Candy Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Candy Machine - A Modest Proposal\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/CandyMachine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>A Modest Proposal<\/em> CD<br \/>\nAtlantic Records, 1994<\/p>\n<p>During Candy Machine&#8217;s 7-year lifespan, the easily overlooked Baltimore quartet managed to put out a few singles and three albums of quality tension rock while never connecting to a substantial fanbase or getting out of the cutout bin ghetto. It&#8217;s a shame too, because this album in particular showcases their peculiar version of rigid, art-damaged postpunk that was unlike the multitude of bands plodding similar territory at the time. Sandwiched between Candy Machine&#8217;s debut on Skene! Records and their final album split released on ultimate indie labels DeSoto and Dischord Records, <em>A Modest Proposal<\/em> was released by a major label and promptly neglected. With a deadpan vocals, severe angular guitar, and bouncing bass lines pulling everything together with a precision-steady beat Candy Machine&#8217;s big label flop is a relatively unheard treasure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/CandyMachine.zip\">Candy Machine &#8211; <em>A Modest Proposal<\/em><\/a> (59.9mb Zip file)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Modest Proposal CD Atlantic Records, 1994 During Candy Machine&#8217;s 7-year lifespan, the easily overlooked Baltimore quartet managed to put out a few singles and three albums of quality tension rock while never connecting to a substantial fanbase or getting out of the cutout bin ghetto. It&#8217;s a shame too, because this album in particular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[153,155,156,13,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}