Album Notes

Who Wants Candy? was recorded by the Wayne Gacy Trio in the autumn of 2011. Jon Dark, an engineer from Oakland California moved to the northwest and converted a barn in Sheridan, Oregon into Pyrate Llama Studios. In the summer of 2011, singer and founder of the Wayne Gacy Trio contacted Jon. They meet and talked about the overall stylistic feel of the band and about making the tracks sound like a Polaroid of something you shouldn’t see, and how they could get what the singer called “a soundtrack for the killer in all of us”

Who Wants Candy? kicks off with a song called “Playtime Surprises” and finishes with “News at 11”. The fifteen tracks on the album drip with imagery that is creepy and a cinematic feel connects Who Wants Candy? from start to finish. One listener remarked enthusiastically, “It’s a murder masterpiece!” The songs ooze an authentic garage sound—raw energy and music that at times rips through the listener like a freight train, and at others it’s almost like being inside a killer’s head. Who Wants Candy? makes you feel like maybe listening to it wasn’t such a good idea after all, like you’re hearing something that you shouldn’t, something dark that lurks deep inside everyone, including the listener.

The Wayne Gacy Trio’s songs delve into subject matter that is difficult for most people to handle. Some of the material is presented in a tongue and check fashion, but as the singer of the band says, “the beauty of the Wayne Gacy Trio’s music is that it’s about the truth and brutality of the dark side. There is a killer in all of us, maybe just deeper down in some than in others, but it is still there”.