By Will McGuirk

Durham Region that gave rise to the softly jangular indie R&B of Lennon Stella and Daniel Caesar can now add that of the husband/wife duo Candace & Michael. The couple have a new album out, ‘meant to be’. It's unabashedly one long love song to each other over ten, no irony just intimacy, and a glide in the note, in the voice, a subtle linger, the sense of space, room to exhale as the harmonies, which are tigertight like the shoreline and the sea, they dance and play around each other. “Grow Older With You’ has been the radio hit, the Mumford & Sonsy thingy “I Will Carry You Home’ will set the heart to flutter and the pitter to patter, and ‘What Did I Do To Deserve You’ falls over into the Roberta Flack version of the Ewan MacColl classic ‘The First Time If Ever I Saw Your Face’. This is an album made for two people facing each other unaware of any one else in the room, ears only for each other and it's damn sexy to get a glimpse into their relationship’s rhythms.

Candace and Michael have a matinee album release show at the Biltmore Theatre Sunday Nov 8 2026. Doors at 2 pm. The equally sexy Matt Holtby opens.