New Candys with Special Guests

New Candys bring their Venetian psych rock to Vancouver on Friday, May 15, 2026 at The Pearl, with special guests. Formed in the late 2000s, the quartet built around singer-guitarist Fernando Nuti explores a tense, textured sound where saturated guitars, motorik patterns and shadowed melodies set the tone. Across albums like Stars Reach The Abyss, New Candys As Medicine, Bleeding Magenta and Vyvyd, they trace a line between garage bite, post-punk rigidity and shoegaze fog, keeping songs concise while leaning on repetition and layered guitar work.

On stage, the band plays compact structures that open into hypnotic grooves, letting riffs and rhythmic motifs circle and evolve. Vocals sit inside the mix rather than on top, giving space to feedback swells, interlocking lines and a steady backbeat that carries the set forward without hurry. The show moves through highlights from their discography, shifting from direct hooks to longer instrumentals in a way that stays coherent and unforced. It’s a focused take on contemporary psych: guitars up front, pulse locked in, atmosphere built from texture more than flash, and a momentum that invites you in rather than pushing too hard.