Candy are not the kind of band to knowingly pull their punches. “The next record?” mused guitarist Michael Quick when he spoke to Kerrang! In late-2020 about their expanding role in the rising wave of hardcore brutalism. “I don’t even want it to be music, honestly. I want it to go to that level of rhythmic noise that’s just blasting ideas into your head. I don’t want there to be riffs, I just want it to be crazy fuckin’ rhythm that’s somehow effective on an emotional level… I hope you hate it!” Two years down the line, it feels like mission accomplished – in everything other than our hatred, of course. Where 2017 EP Candy Says and 2018’s full-length debut Good To Feel were the sound of rebels stabbing at the outer boundaries of musical theory, hardcore convention, and...