NEW MUSIC: THE UNLIKELY CANDIDATES | SUNSHINE

The Unlikely Candidates, Texas-based Alt-Rock band, released a preview of their first, highly anticipated full-length album, "Panther Island," last week. They have now released the first single, "Sunshine," the lead single from the album due May 20th. Marooned in their hometown of Panther City, "Panther Island'' includes previously released singles and new songs written and refined from lessons learned throughout their time in the industry. "High Low," a previously released single featured on the album, was recorded in lead singer Kyle Morris' Texas apartment. "Sunshine," written by Morris and Derek Fuhrmann, is a nostalgic song about wishing to go back to a time when things felt a little easier. The world was more hopeful. Morris calls this his "apocalypse song" that "tries to capture the paranoia and loneliness of feeling trapped in a room, viewing the world from a phone." Signed to Another Century, a subsidiary of Sony Music, The Unlikely Candidates are best known for their 2019 hit "Novocaine," which reached #1 on the Alternative Charts. With nearly a million monthly listeners on Spotify, the band is currently on tour, opening for legendary rock band 311's 2022 Spring Tour. They will also be headlining their shows at Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta, GA, and Tulips FWT in their hometown of Fort Worth, TX. In 2019, the band went on the "Strange Lines" tour with Brick + Mortar and The Brevet. The tour was named after what would have been the band's first studio album, due in Fall 2019, but the album ended up being scrapped for unknown reasons.