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Songs We Love: Alex Cameron, 'Candy May'

With a video set on the Las Vegas strip, Cameron sings about a wound deeper than the layers of synth carved into the first single from Forced Witness. Angel Olsen sings backing vocals.
Alex Cameron's new album, <em>Forced Witness,</em> comes out Sept. 8.

We open on a beater driving across a washed-out Nevada, with an intro ripped right out of 1985. Echoing drums snap under a chugging bass line as Alex Cameron, dressed in all white, starts to sing about a wound deeper than the

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