Candace Camacho (duendita) doesn’t go to church anymore, but the field of warm spiritual energy that surrounds her is evident in both her soulful and stylistically striking music as duendita and her presence in person. the mind is a miracle, the long-awaited follow-up to her 2018 debut LP, received rave reviews for both its messy vulnerability and clean composition. Following its release, Camacho performed the record live across the country, though she later had to step back from music after a period of instability led to a mental health crisis for which she was ultimately hospitalized. She’s rebuilt her life in the years since. This past March, she debuted Sound River, an audiovisual piece about resilience on the East River that was recorded in riverside Puerto Rican communities across the South Bronx, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and Red Hook, Brooklyn. On the new record, she focuses on similar themes. Across 20 minutes, Camacho brims with a tragicomic blend of heartbreak and joy. S...