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Candelilla - "little light" - somehow doesn't want to go with the loud, angry and urgent songs of the band from Munich. However, Mira Mann (vocals, bass) and Lina Seybold (vocals, guitar) bring the name with them from their school days, where they met through music in 2001. Things really got going in 2007, when the two found their perfect partners in crime in Rita Argauer (vocals, keyboards) and Sandra Hilpold (drums). Mann, Seybold and Argauer had already recorded three EPs with changing members and distributed them themselves, rehearsed in the Munich area and as the opening act for Slut.
"Don't Rely On What Others Say" is the name of the first 6-track EP after the rebirth; message and self-admonition in one. Punk rock meets sweet pop moments, quite playful at times, almost a little well-behaved. But Candelilla are already "addicted to hoarseness", as they cry out in the song "4". The songs have to do without names from now on, numbering is king.
In an all-girl band that doesn't play folky fairy songs, but rocks properly, of course everyone comes with the feminist club and the riot grrrl drawer, with Bikini Kill and Hole. But you shouldn't come to Candelilla with the "woman thing" (Argauer). Of course they are feminists, but they want to be seen as a band and not as a "women's band". "You also have to know that Candelilla's all-female cast was more of a coincidence, the girls used to play with boys before I joined, and I've also been in other bands," Hilpold reveals to the blog Mapambulo.
In 2009 the first official studio album was released on the local label Red Can Records. The quartet is still testing how much can be packed into a song without it completely falling apart. The sweet pop melodies have to make way for more noise, grunge and hardcore. The microphone wanders wildly around the band, they sing in English and in German, preferably in the same sentence.
Candelilla records the follow-up album with producer legend Steve Albini (including Pixies, PJ Harvey, Nirvana and his own band Shellac). And that appears after the band made a name for themselves in Germany, France, Spain and the UK on Zick Zack. After all, the original Hamburg independent label has always been a haven for the more interesting and smarter German pop music.
"Heart Mutter" will be released in 2013 and comes at a time when a few more German-speaking bands with anger in their stomachs and brains in their heads are making a name for themselves: Ecke Schönhauser, Messer, 1000 Robota, 206, Better Times and a few more. But Candelilla don't really want to fit into this 2010 new edition of the Hamburger Schule. They are a bit too noisy and grungy, too erratic and too multi-layered for that. Because the band's first motto is still to take it apart and put it back together again. So the numbering continues to make sense, as Candelilla tell Zündfunk: "Because the three of us write texts and like to chop things up, put them back together, rearrange them and let them run against each other, it is of course very important again in terms of content or meaning fitting to let number stand as a total abstraction." Poorly translated from: https://www.laut.de/Candelilla
