David Candy

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David Candy is a fictional pseudonym of Ian Svenonius (formerly of Nation of Ulysses, The Make-Up, and currently Weird War). Only one album was released under the name David Candy, Play Power. The character of David Candy was part of a series of "Magazine-Style Records" which included other imaginary acts such as Death by Chocolate, Maria Napoleon, and Lollipop Train.

The David Candy persona is that of a pretentious, over-opinionated, egotistical, self-absorbed, pseudo-intellectual hipster. This choice of character traits may have been a form of self-mockery by Svenonius, or perhaps a commentary on the personalities of the indie rock scene in general. Much like the assumed personas and personalities of all of Svenonius bands and projects (see the "biographies" of Nation of Ulysses, Cupid Car Club, The Make-Up, and Weird War), a make-believe mythos surrounds the character of David Candy. [1]

1 Play Power
2 Track listing
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Play Power

Play Power

Studio album by David Candy
Released	June 12, 2001
Label	Jet Set Records Siesta Records If Records
Producer(s)	Mike Alway

Play Power is the only album from the fictional musician David Candy, aka Ian Svenonius.

Three of the tracks, "Listen to the Music," "Bad Bad Boy," and "Lullaby From 'Rosmary's Baby' " are cover versions from obscure film soundtracks. ^[1] "Listen to the Music" is from the 1968 teensploitation comedy-satire Wild in the Streets, "Bad Bad Boy" is a cover from the 1967 British film Privilege, and "Lullaby from 'Rosemary's Baby' " is a cover from Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.

The instrumentals of the album are derivative of 60's pop music and psychedelia, while Svenonius/Candy's vocal delivery is primarily spoken word in the same vein as beat poetry. The lyrical content of the vocals is often a pseudo-intellectual rant, meandering between overly-heady topics such as historical materialism, Suprematism, and the "rampant public licentiousness" of São Paulo, Brazil.