Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (UK Vinyl Album Pressing + 12-Page Full-Color Booklet)

 

Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (UK Vinyl Pressing from elasticStage)
Includes a 12-page full-color booklet.

Order your copy here:

https://elasticstage.com/candyappleblue/releases/breakthrough-album

Candy Apple Blue's "Breakthrough!" is a concept album that explores LGBTQ+ themes of survival, romantic love relationships, optimism, and the triumph of the human spirit.

The band's fifth studio album, which has been 4 & 1/2 years in the making, is considered by many fans to be their best musical offering to date. This release features some of their biggest indie hits, including "Moving Out of Town," "Baby Blue," and "A Touch Too Much." It also includes covers of Peter Godwin's "Images of Heaven," Dead or Alive's "Special Star," and Stevie Nicks' "If Anyone Falls."

This beautiful UK vinyl pressing includes eight remixes by Matt Pop! Additionally, it features guest vocal performances by Nick Bramlett, Christina Siravo (a.k.a. Magenta Soulstar), and Ariella da Vil. This sparkling dance-pop record comes complete with a full-color, 12-page booklet and offers listeners a unique look into the band's backstory for each track.

Experience the signature synth-pop sound of Candy Apple Blue that has captured the hearts of fans around the world.

Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (Cover Art)

Candy Apple Blue - Breakthrough! (Official Cover Art)

Album Cover Art Concept:

Our album's cover art concept functions as a visual manifesto of the current-day LGBTQ+ experience. The graphic design illustrates a community under global attack. Ascending as guardians from heaven, the pink-triangle spaceships are there to beam us up to safety from the current-day systemic hostility. The spermatozoa swimming around the cloud symbolize the biological imperative that we are, in fact, born this way. The lipstick-gun represents our way of beautifying this ugly world, all while fending off our enemies. Hoyt's facial expression captures the weary resilience of a generation, once more, forced to confront historical cycles of prejudice and animosity. I hope the album's cover art evokes a real sense of urgency, like the propaganda posters of the World War I and World War II eras. My artwork is a call to action, demanding the recognition of our survival, our strength, and our resistance.

Let's continue to fight the good fight! Stay strong, stay positive, and we will "Breakthrough!" 

Sincerely, Carly Emerick

Pre-order on 8/14 here: (Link coming soon.)

Official release date: August 28th, 2026