Masquerade is an Alt/Indie album by Cardinals, originally released in 2026. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked.
About
Since emerging with singles “Amsterdam” and “Roseland” in the early 2020, Cardinals have grown their sound from noisily melodic and traditionally structured indie-rock into something more intriguingly capricious and uncertain. Debut album <i>Masquerade</i> is a record that stomps and shiver, rages and stutters with vulnerability and a sense of seams unfastening. There are complex feelings to be spilled as the five-piece explore love, faith, suffering, and, on “The Burning of Cork,” the lessons and scars of violence once waged on their own city. Finn Manning’s accordion is a potent tool of emotional elaboration, sighing and spiraling amid scratching, jabbing guitars as his singer/guitarist brother Euan considers cycles of brutality (“Anhedonia”) and the torments and dependencies of love (“Big Empty Heart”). .
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1She Makes Me Real2:58
- 2St. Agnes2:09
- 3Masquerade3:08
- 4I Like You4:14
- 5Over At Last4:58
- 6Anhedonia2:25
- 7Barbed Wire3:04
- 8Big Empty Heart2:48
- 9The Burning of Cork1:59
- 10As I Breathe6:02
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Indie Rock
- raw
- earnest
- art school
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 8 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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