From a small, dark room on the northside of Cork city - a rehearsal space that is “very cold in the winter and very hot in the summer” - Cardinals have emerged with a debut album that appropriately swings from one extreme to the other. Darkness to light. Light to darkness. Hopefulness to despair. Compassion to chaotic indifference.

A band forged through both family and friendship - brothers Euan (vocals, guitar) and Finn (accordion) Manning, their cousin Darragh (drums, tambourine, glockenspiel) and their former schoolmates Oskar Gudinovic (guitar) and Aaron Hurley (bass) - the five-piece have already positioned themselves at the vanguard of the Irish independent rock scene. And with Masquerade, they have flung off the shackles of their early influences to craft something entirely their own.

00:00 - She Makes Me Real
03:57 - I Like You
08:56 - St Agnes
11:24 - Masquerade
15:21 - Roads (Portishead cover)
20:48 - As I Breathe

Credits -

Produced by Luciano Cusack and Louis Raworth
Directed by Luciano Cusack and Mike Glynn

Recorded and Mixed by Sam Orman
Live Sound by Louis Raworth
Mastered by Louis Raworth
Shot by Mike Glynn  
Edited by Mike Glynn

Executive Producers; Louis Raworth, Alfie Aukett and Thom Parris

Musicians:
Euan Manning - Vocals, Guitar
Oskar Gudinovic - Guitar
Finn Manning - Accordion
Aaron Hurley - Bass
Darragh Manning - Drums, Glockenspiel


Location: Next Door Records Two, London, N16 7UY

A Works films production for Next Door Records.

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