Shannon Candy Has Used Quarantine To Make Her First Solo Album

As a guitarist for Strawberry Jacuzzi and founder of Bernice Records and Tapes, Shannon Candy has been one of Chicago’s most productive punks for the better part of a decade, so of course she hasn’t been sitting on her hands during quarantine. In fact, Candy tells Gossip Wolf that she’s spent the past few months working on her first solo LP, So Long, while “listening to a lot of Le Tigre, the Coathangers, and Vivian Girls.” Fans of those bands’ romping jams will certainly find plenty to bop along with here, including the bouncy make-out manifesto “IUD.” Mixed and mastered by Angel Marcloid of Fire-Toolz, So Long drops digitally via Spotify and Bandcamp on Friday, November 6.

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