Cardinals will release their highly-anticipated debut self-titled EP on June 7 via So Young Records.
We have already heard a steady run of new songs — “Unreal”, “Roseland”, “If I Could Make You Care”, and now the band shares a fourth preview of the release, “Nineteen”. It is a short and direct rocker, inspired by the songs of Buddy Holly, and is out alongside the fun performance video.
Watch below and pre-order the EP here.
Today, Irish indie rock group Cardinals announced their debut self-titled EP, which will be out June 7 via So Young Records.
Along with the news they are sharing a new single “If I Could Make You Care”, the expansive nearly 6-minute-long number. It is raw, honest, and utterly captivating — the loud guitars are there, as well as some great accordion!
Addressing the song, frontman Euan Manning shared the following insights regarding its themes: “There’s not much to say about the lyrics of the song past its title which was stolen from Frank Sinatra’s ‘I Could Make You Care’. It was co-written between myself and Oskar and we worked away at it quietly until it became something special between us. The arrangement with the band brought the drama and scale, it grew into something bigger than we expected. It was a great relief to write the song, like we had come to the end of some part of our lives”.
Listen below and pre-order the EP here.
Cardinals return today with “Runaway”, their follow-up to last year’s debut single proper, “Roseland”. It is another standout track that exemplifies the band’s energy and timeless indie rock sound and is a shining example of why they are one of the coolest new outfits that appeared on the scene recently.
Frontman Euan Manning had the following to say about the song:
“Unreal was written in the back of a Ford Transit van that I happened to be living in at the time. It reminds me of warm days spent on the beaches at home back in Cork. I remember learning a Beach Boys song, taking one of the chords from it, and building a whole new song, this one, around it”.
Watch below and get the track here.
Back in August London-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Oscar Browne announced his debut EP If Only, which is set for release on October 20 via So Young Records.
He has already shared “Somebody Else” & “Cut Me Off”, and now we are getting one more preview, “All or Nothing”. It’s another special offering from the talented artist, with his unique touch on indie folk and captivating storytelling ability. The single is out with the playful music video, directed by Ella Margolin.
Watch below and pre-order the EP here.
Glasgow’s noisy avant-rock masterminds Humour deliver one more time with the new single “Wrangel”, out now via tastemaker label So Young Records. The song is a haunting and intense piece, with the band blending together their raw energy, emotional depth and exciting storytelling.
The actual story behind the track is very interesting and worth getting into it. Frontman Andreas had the following to say about it:
“‘Wrangel’ is inspired by different stories of polar exploration. I was reading the biography of Captain Robert Scott who led an expedition of five men to be the first to reach the South Pole, all of whom died on the return journey in an unrelenting blizzard. The music had come together already, and the plodding, steady rhythm of the verses made me think of trudging through snow. I had recently watched an episode of Our Planet which showed footage of Wrangel Island in the arctic circle, an uninhabited place where polar bears are now arriving in their thousands to hunt because of the lack of sea ice. I thought that there could be something peaceful about being in a place like that, and wanted the character in the song to be imagining living his life out on Wrangel as he makes his way across the ice without much hope of survival.
An Indigenous Alaskan woman called Ada Blackjack actually did this after being sent to Wrangel as part of a doomed expedition of which she was the sole survivor, living alone on the island for nearly two years while teaching herself to hunt and to fend off the polar bears which she had a mortal fear of. A really incredible person. These stories of both survival and accepting fate at the end of the world were the inspiration for the song”.
Check it out below and get the song here.
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