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Liverpool-via-NYC chanteuse Candie Payne - think a bit of Francoise Hardy, a bit of Saint Etienne - releases just the thing for music fans who like a dollop of clever kitchen sink drama mixed in with their pop tunes, with her new single.

24 year old Candie Payne’s follow-up single to the very hard-to-find debut 7” All I Need To Hear is the exuberant Take Me. Candie’s sound is trenchantly modern, updating the sonic and stylistic tricks of decades past and forming compelling contemporary tales.

Candie was four when she was uprooted from an idyllic suburb of Liverpool to 1980’s pre-Giuliani New York. As the burgeoning sound of hip hop ruled the streets, this fast moving, multi-racial metropolis was a world away from what the young Candie and her family expected she would be growing up in, indelibly marking the impressionable youngster. Moving back to Liverpool in the early 90’s - she came from block rockin’ beats to a city firmly in the grip of acid house.

Toughened by her formative years in the Big Apple, Candie returned a more confident and outspoken character, with a freshly altered outlook on life.

Classic Tastes

By her early teens, Candie began to take a real interest in the sounds she was exposed to growing up and her musical parents’ classic tastes; “My Mum and Dad have always had fantastic records; Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, any of the greats you could name, and they were always on.” Aside from her parents’ exquisite taste there were her elder brothers’ record collections that served to broaden her listening spectrum even more, bands like The Who, Nirvana, The Byrds and Jimi Hendrix were on heavy rotation at home.

Jump forward to 2006 and Candie’s musical background brought her to the attention of Deltasonic who released her limited 7” / download single Take Me in October – worth tracking down for the B side alone - a very different take on Iggy Pop’s sleaze classic Nightclubbin’.

Candie is currently busy putting finishing touches to her debut album I Wish I Could Have Loved You More - due out early next year. If you like clever kitchen sink drama pop with touches of the classics but something all of its own then this is for you. She makes a rare live appearance Saturday 2 December at The Windmill in Brixton - onstage at 9.30pm.

Take Me by Candie Payne is released through Deltasonic as a limited edition vinyl 7” & download only. For more information on check out Candie on Myspace at: www.myspace.com/candiepayne. There's an unnoficial 'scratch video' for the track on Youtube - which you can check out here.

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