Cork’s Cardinals share a new single, the biting and politically-charged ‘The Burning of Cork’. Frontman Euan Manning had to say the following about the latest release from their record:
“The song takes its name from the act of terror inflicted upon Cork City by the British Army’s Black and Tan forces in December 1920. It’s the record at its heaviest and most menacing.”
‘The Burning of Cork’, which lands alongside a video from the director Greg Purcell, is the second single to be taken from their debut album Masquerade, set for release on 13 February via tastemaker label So Young Records. The ten song collection was recorded with producer Shrink at RAK Studios, London across the summer. It’s a record that is at once grand and intimate, awash with romance and flickers of holy imagery, and most of all, it’s an undeniable fulfilment of the innate promise the band have shown since their earliest beginnings. These are emotionally expansive songs, some simmering with an undercurrent of violence, cynicism or fervent discontent (‘Anhedonia’, ‘The Burning of Cork’, ‘Barbed Wire‘) and others gleaming with a bright-eyed vulnerability. A vivid first half contrasts a darker second and crafts a record with a clear A-side and B-side. A nod to the band’s collective love of vinyl, that tonal shift takes its cue from a variety of expected and unexpected influences – from the brittle honesty of folk to the theatrical melodrama of goth-rock.
Cardinals are now touring in support of NewDad in the UK and Ireland, and the band have also shared details of a headline tour across mainland Europe in late November to round off the year.
A band forged through both family and friendship – brothers Euan and Finn Manning, their cousin Darragh and their former schoolmates Oskar Gudinovic and Aaron Hurley – the five-piece have already positioned themselves at the vanguard of the Irish independent rock scene.
Cardinals Live Dates
October
22 – Bristol, Electric Bristol (with NewDad)
23 – Cardiff, Tramshed (with NewDad)
24 – Birmingham, XOYO (with NewDad)
26 – Brighton, CHALK (with NewDad)
28 – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town (with NewDad)
31 – Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre (with NewDad)
November
1 – Cork, Cyprus Avenue (with NewDad)
2 – Galway, Leisureland (with NewDad)
4 – Belfast, Mandela Hall (with NewDad)
24 – Paris, Point Ephemere
26 – Berlin, Kantine
27 – Düsseldorf, Ratinger Hof
28 – Gent, Trefpunt
29 – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
30 – Amsterdam, Tolhuistuin
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