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Catharsis

by Candle

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1.
Before The Rain ============== Seven years have passed since I last held your hand Seven years it has been hard for me to live without you Yet somewhere deep inside I know there is light Oh, there is light Through the cul-de-sac I will go back To that night before the rain In the cul-de-sac I will come back To that night before the rain Still I don't know what happened on that dark lonely night The sidewalk was broken and the shadows were deeper Than I had ever seen in my life And somehow I just knew I could feel, feel you Somehow I just knew I could still feel you Somehow I could just feel I could just feel I could feel Through the cul-de-sac I will go back To that night before the rain In the cul-de-sac I will come back To that night before the rain Before the rain… There's a whisper, just a whisper of pain In the darkness I'll wrap myself in shadows so I could remain So I could remain, so I could remain out of the rain I could remain out of the rain Through the cul-de-sac I will go back To that night before the rain In the cul-de-sac I will come back To that night before the rain Through the cul-de-sac maybe I'll come back To that night before the rain To that night before the rain To that night before the rain Before the rain…
2.
Voices 06:25
Voices ====== Voices… I hear voices So many voices In my mind With a tug At my gut I feel them romance My very breath As I listen to The gentle flickering Within my eyes For this is where They guide Voices… Voices… In my head There's voices in my head And I hear They romance My very breath Listen to the Gentle flickering All these voices in my head They won't stop whispering The voices in my head Won't stop whispering Sweet nothings Sweet nothings in my head In my head Sweet nothing… Voices… Whispering… Sweet nothings… In my head…
3.
Sanity's Lapse ============ The wind blows Across the dusty plain The bodies of a million deer slowly decay And I hear that voice again Will I ever escape? Will I ever get away? It's like a prison Even though it's a wide open space I just keep wandering North south east and west And in the distance A dense fog begins to form Rolling across decaying grass It envelopes me It holds me It pins me down I get lost Lost in its dense gaseous fray And through that dense fog Suddenly a light A single point of light appears Off in the distance I try to move towards it But every step I take Every meagre centimetre I make It gets further away I feel like I've been walking for hours Perhaps days Perhaps months Perhaps years I don't know It's so long I'm just so lost in this dense fog on this dying plain Will I ever get out again Will I ever find home Or am I destined simply to wander A truant A truant never at home I guess we'll never know 'Cos I'm still lost In the shadow of that once great hill That slowly crumbled down into the sea The sea where I could perhaps be free Perhaps one day One day I'll be free I don't know if I'll ever get home No I don't know if I'll ever get home I'll just keep walking along this foggy path Through the endless denseness of the fog Hoping that one day Maybe not too long I'll get back home Get back home I'll get back home She once said to me: "Put your hand in mine And I'll keep you safe" And I let her go Set her adrift On the ocean of chaos And now here I am Yes here I am Lost in my own madness My own insane tonalities If I could just hold her hand I could hold her hand I might go home I might escape I might end all this roaming Through the fog Through the haze Through this dead grass The crumbling hills are lost beyond The virutes I once knew I once held And rebelled against In the darkness And in the rain In the darkness I feel her hands Run through my hair And I close my eyes And I dream Of that day When I will finally be Be away from this desert This desert This desert of foggy death Where I'm captured I'm a prisoner of my own ego My own perceptions My own death My own life My inabilities… Take me away Take me away Wrap me up in your cold chains And take me away Take me down Into that dark rank Pit of darkness And throw away the key Throw away the key I've finally accepted I've lost my mind But I'm ok with that It was never mine to begin with So this is the end The end of all there was The end of all that could be But never was The end They threw away the key Nobody's coming here for me My mind is lost It's gone for good So I'm wrapped up here In these cold chains It's all that remains Of my pour degraded soul My pour degraded soul It's all I've got left It's all I've got left Nothing
4.
In Your Eyes 04:46
n Your Eyes =========== In your eyes I see the reflexion Of all that lies In some forgotten direction Somewhere deep down We'll find the sound In your eyes I try to look past the pain In your eyes That's where I remain There's a darkness Out in the world Sometime I'll be free In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes We can't despise Or hide from the lies In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes In your eyes
5.
Darkness 04:44
Darkness ======== I live the life of a truant, I like to contemplate darkness. But when I start to daydream, My mind turns straight to silence. Sometimes I look at myself and I look into my eyes, I notice the way I think about silence with a smile, Curved lips I just can't disguise. But I think it's darkness making my life worthwhile. I need to walk in the shadows, I need to dance in the rain, But when left alone, My mind turns straight to silence. Sometimes I look at myself and I look into my eyes, I notice the way I think about silence with a smile, Curved lips I just can't disguise. But I think it's darkness making my life worthwhile. I get lost in the chaos, And die in the mundane, I only seem to be happy when My mind turns straight to silence. Sometimes I look at myself and I look into my eyes, I notice the way I think about silence with a smile, Curved lips I just can't disguise. But I think it's darkness making my life worthwhile Sometimes I look at myself and I look into my eyes, I notice the way I think about silence with a smile, Curved lips I just can't disguise. But I think it's darkness making my life worthwhile But I think it's darkness making my life worthwhile
6.
The Light At The End Of The Tunnel ============================ Maybe it isn't what I thought it was Maybe it isn't what it could have been But there's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a light at the end of the tunnel Maybe my dreams were always past Maybe I was disgraced But there's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a light at the end of the tunnel Yes, there's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a light at the end of the tunnel There's a light at the end of the tunnel At the end of the tunnel…
7.
Catharsis 19:31
Catharsis ======= On a dark lonely highway I'll get back home Walking for miles on my own One day I will return To that hole where I burned Where I burned On that forest path I came to a stone Once again I was all alone The ravens flew up above in the sky And the wolves howled in the night In the moonlight I will bathe In the moonlight I will bathe In the waters of life I will bathe and wash off the not human Curved lips betray the sound Of the night all around And I try not to make a sound Oh… Oh… Oh… Oh… (&c…) On the hills far away From all my dreams From all that plays So heavily upon my soul Upon my heart Upon everything I do Freedom will rise Freedom will rise Freedom will rise As the car hit the guard rail And the world begins to spin Time slows down To a fraction of a heartbeat And all I can think of is you Laying in the sun and in the dew Your hands in mine Together for a time When we were young When we were young When we had nothing to hold us back From all our dreams When we had nothing holding us back From all those dreams We dreamed alone Together in our arms Late at night forever in song Late at night forever in song Late at night forever in our song When I think of it now And how much has changed Where are you now? Where are you now? Where are you now? In my dreams I still feel your hands Run thru my hair As if you were still there And in the night I still cry I still long for everything we lost For our old song I still long for everything we lost And our old song Our old song By the seaside By the light In the night Where we cried And the smiles for the world That held us down Held us back from love From love From love Across the field the fog rolls in And in the shadows of my heart I begin again Across that field I begin I begin Let me hold your hand again In the night I cried so alone So I long for your touch If I held your hand again Perhaps the light would remain One last time But you gave me strength to face the day You gave me strength to wash the shadows away You gave me strength to face the mundane You give me strength You give me strength You give me strength You give me strength You give me strength You give me strength You give me strength

about

Perhaps my most personal music to date, Catharsis is the 11th Studio Album by Canadian Experimental Rock Musician, Candle. The album features seven tracks that were improvised & recorded live-to-tape in single takes for the 2021 edition of February Album Writing Month (www.fawm.org). The songs explore themes of darkness, depression, loneliness, sanity & liberation, using minimal orchestration in order to capture the emotion of each performance.

What others are saying:

" Lot of emotion in here, you've spread that between the guitar and vocals and given us something none of us (including you, I suspect) saw coming." - Looprication from FAWM

"Your liner notes indicate that it may be "too long", but it is actually easy to get lost in it, just like you, both in the guitars and in the words, half spoken, half sung. Part poem, exclamation, part song, all art, this is a feast indeed, but not of depression, of catharsis" - Pheonixash from FAWM re: Sanity's Lapse

Incidentally, that last comment was the one that crystalized this album in my mind. It was then that I realized that the exercise of improvising these songs was my own personal catharsis - finally allowing me to address some of the darkness that has haunted me since my youth.

I hope that this music stirs something within your own soul & helps you find the light within the shadows.

See You In The Shadows…

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released June 21, 2021

Music, Lyrics, Performance, Production: Darby Spicer
Cover Image: intographics from www.pixabay.com

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Darby Spicer’s ongoing experimental-space rock project CANDLE fuses psychadelic & progressive rock stylings with ambient sounds & textures that create emotion driven soundscapes that only need to be experienced to be understood.

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