‘Masquerade’
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Cork’s Cardinals have been turning heads over the past year with a string of engaging singles and now that time has arrived for their debut album, ‘Masquerade’, to go the microscope!
Well those looking close enough will notice the care and love placed into the craft of this record. Indeed, each song means something, but the album in its entirety becomes greater than the sum of its part with very particular placings for these songs making the album evolve over the course of the ten tracks.
Cardinals are band of brothers (both literally and figuratively) having grown up together and their shared experiences held to bring a vivid honesty to the record. This aesthetic will undoubtedly get some high profile and somewhat obvious comparisons but there is an aura which sets them apart woven throughout.
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You can’t help but pick up on the emotive and vulnerable nature of these songs and that only manages to cultivate those all-important feelings of relatability. Songs that can make you feel something mean more and this is an album made of those songs.
Just take the morose epic closer ‘As I Breathe’ as case in point. The track provides the perfect juxtaposition to the rockier first half of the record and does its job perfectly in making you want to hit play again!
With folk storytelling, punk attitude and indie style there is plenty going for Cardinals and now they have navigated the tricky set of a debut album with such ease it is exciting to consider what the future will hold for them!
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