rivalmagazinela.com – ‘The Unlikely Candidates’ for Rival Magazine

While we all collectively sighed for the last two years, I ended up discovering my covid catalog of music just as many other isolated folks did. You know what I mean, all of the new discoveries you made while shacked up with perhaps their loyal pet and too many zoom calls. One of these happened to be The Unlikely Candidates, an indie rock outfit from Texas that pushed through the pandemic to now support 311 on their headlining tour. You may know them for their hits “Novacaine” and “Oh My Dear Lord” but I fell in love with their 2020 covid creation “High Low.”

antimusic.com – Singled Out: The Unlikely Candidates’ How I Am

The Unlikely Candidates just released their new single “How I Am” from their forthcoming album, “Panther Island”, and to celebrate we asked lead singer Kyle Morris to tell us about the track. Here is the story:

I wrote this after one of my best friends took his life. I had never experienced this kind of grief and guilt before – I became the most depressed I’ve ever been. During this time, we were finishing our debut album and I couldn’t really bring myself to write much. I was struggling and chose to channel those feelings into “How I Am.” It was basically a journal entry of how I was feeling at the time.