Things have as expected calmed right down on the new music front, so we will probably have a few quiet days before the new year. Here's some recent arrivals at Beehive Candy that we really want to share and we will be back if any surprises come our way before the year end.
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| Photo - Ollie Carr |
Already digitally released the debut EP by The Heavenly Bodes is due for release on 10" vinyl hand cut in Kernow UK by Sam Stacpoole on 27th December 2025.
Here's a little background on this highly listenable and noteworthy band.. South Cornwall garage-psych-rockers ‘The Heavenly Bodes’ emerged through chance meetings at kernowbeat (formerly kernow psych society) shows in Falmouth. Formed in 2023 through a collective love of all things pebbles & acid-garage - a slew of limb injuries put the brakes on proceedings until summer 2024.
Cutting their teeth with opening slots for NZ Flying Nun heavyweights The Chills as well as LA fuzz stalwart Charles Moothart & His Fast Band. The band have been writing and performing continuously, with headline shows for Bad Vibrations and Label Mates, and festival slots including Glasgow’s Freakender.
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It looks like we are staying in Cornwall as this gorgeous EP arrived at Beehive Candy just before the weekend, there is something quite special happening musically in England's South West, long may it continue. We are told Penzance based Cornish supergroup Diët Spanglë just released a surprise EP.
Though the band has been together in some form or another for nigh on 8 years, "They Think We're Stupid" is this rag-taggle bunch of aging misfits debut recorded release. A veritable Venn Diagram of the West Cornwall music scene Diët Spanglë take on the challenge of covering their own songs - from the bandsDië Spanglë, Tremoans & Pondlife - then re-inventing them into an arguably more popular form!
Diët Spanglë are: Pondy - mandolin / bass / vox, Paulo - bass / harp / vox, Nige - baritone sax, Kenny - drums, Leo - guitar / bass / vox, Jojo - vox
With songs that consider potential alien landings in Pendeen, West Penwith, festival etiquette in the modern age where campsites are adorned with bunting to mark the territory of friendship groups. A song called Stoopid where wit meets cynicism in a takedown of consumerism and another purporting that the world's troubles could be settled by wrestlers this is clearly worth a listen, surely you agree?
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| Photo - Maria Taylor |
Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Maria Taylor releases a cover of Counting Crows’ “Colorblind” featuring Dashboard Confessional. The recording, produced by Mike Bloom, was given to Counting Crows’ Adam Duritz as a birthday gift two years ago.
About the recording, Taylor explains: “A couple of years ago, as a birthday present to Adam Duritz, a group of friends decided to cover a few of his songs. Chris Carrabba and I met at Adam’s New York apartment years ago. We kept in touch and talked about collaborating someday. I texted Chris and told him that I was going to cover my favorite Counting Crows song, ‘Colorblind,’ and asked if he would want to sing it with me. He thought it was a great idea! That same night I went into my little home studio and recorded the dreamy guitars and vocals.
I asked my good friend, Mike Bloom, to take it over from there and produce it. Chris sang it a week later and we finished it just in time to give to Adam for his birthday! Recently I came across this track and was reminded of how much I love it. I love the song, the production, and collaborating for the first time with Chris. I really love how our voices sound together. And to package it up beautifully, my friend (and artist) Alvaro Ilizarbe let me use his amazing art as the single cover. It was a collaborative project from start to finish.” Taylor’s cover of “Colorblind” marks her first proper song release since 2022 as she prepares to release new music next year.
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Delafaye is well and truly back, returning with his last single 'I Can't Feel You', now comes 'Twenty Dollars', both recorded at his home studio in Jeffersonville, Indiana, with them being two of the most pivotal songs from his new EP 'Blue Light' which is coming in early 2026.
The moniker of Andrew Shockley, born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Delafaye, now based in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and who records at his home studio named ‘Beechwood’, is an indie folk singer-songwriter, whose deeply relatable songs often come laced in melancholy, providing honest, raw, modern day reflections straight from the heart.
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