Product Description
Title: Cardinals – Cardinals EP Format: 12 inch vinyl EP Label: So Young Barcode: 5060998462568
Release date: June 7th 2024
Cardinals start as a joke between two sixteen-year-olds in a sleepy fishing town on the southern coast of Ireland
A whole joke- taken- to- heart later and their difference is marked by an early
immersion in Cork’s live music scene, ‘we wanted to juxtapose ourselves,’ says
frontman Euan Manning, ‘we have pop-leaning infuences and didn’t want to shy
away from that.’ Now barely twenty, the six-piece are next in an Irish line changing
the sound of alternative music.
Blending Ireland’s musical beating heart with a swell of contemporary frisson, the
six- piece are tied to making music they enjoy whilst being perpetually kept
outside of their comfort zone. The result is an eclectic gothic amalgam of
shoegaze, Irish trad folk, and rock which incorporates 60s Wall of Sound
elements for a punk- infected noise that ‘wants to be warm pop.’ Underpinning
this trademark friction is a soft narrative arc which chases a stark vulnerability,
‘I’ve heard music and seen flms and somehow felt less alone,’ says Euan, ‘If we
can do that for someone else, then that’s cool in my books.’
