Cardinals Share New Single “Get It”

The Cork five-piece Cardinals return today with a new single, “Get It”, their first material since a widely-acclaimed debut EP landed at the start of the summer on tastemaker label So Young Records.

That six-song EP displayed the innate warmth of their songwriting, and new single “Get It” follows in the same vein whilst shooting still higher, both immediately melodic and full of heart.

Already a live favourite, the band recorded “Get It” with Chris Ryan (Just Mustard, NewDad, Robocobra Quartet) at his Belfast studio earlier this year with their frontman Euan Manning having the following to say about the themes behind the track:

“To me it’s a song about reflection, looking at what went wrong but also at what went right. The worst and the best. Its climax crowns love as an overwhelmingly positive force, whichever type of love that may be. It’s a change of pace for us and definitely feels like a bridging moment for what’s to come next.”

The band have already seen enviable support from Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten, who called them “one of my favourite new bands” during an interview with BBC Radio 1, and only last month Kneecap named the group as one of the artists from Ireland they’re most excited about during an interview with the NME.

Following a string of sold-out dates across 2024 in the UK and at home in Ireland, the band have a busy live schedule ahead.

This includes a performance at Pitchfork London in November, followed by a support stint with New York’s Been Stellar across the UK, dates in Ireland and then the band’s first trip to NYC for headlining shows there in December.

Cardinals have also added an intimate London headliner for 4th November, performing at Third Man.

A full set of dates are below:

12/10/2024 – Here’s The Thing Festival 2024, Tilburg, NL
24/10/2024 – They’re Gonna Be Big Festival 2024, Supersonic, Paris, FR
25/10/2024 – London Calling, Amsterdam, NL
04/11/2024 – Third Man Blue Basement, London, UK
08/11/2024 – Pitchfork London, The Lower Third, UK w/ Far Caspian
09/11/2024 – Mutations Festival, Brighton, UK
16/11/2024 – Live At Leeds Festival, Leeds,  UK
19/11/2024 – The Fleece, Bristol, UK*
21/11/2024 – Manchester Academy 3, Manchester, UK*
22/11/2024 – King Tut’s, Glasgow, UK*
24/11/2024 – The Cluny, Newcastle, UK*
25/11/2024 – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK*
26/11/2024 – The Bodega, Nottingham, UK*
28/11/2024 – Scala, London, UK*
30/11/2024 – The Workmans, Dublin, IE
01/12/2024 – Roisin Dubh, Galway, IE
02/12/2024 – Ulster Sports Club, Belfast, UK
5/12/2024 – Brooklyn, NY Union Pool
6/12/2024 – New York, NYC Berlin
(* w/Been Stellar)

More information on Cardinals:

Tracksuited, denim and leather clad and hidden behind wrap-around sunglasses, the Cork five-piece, Cardinals, look like they’ve just stepped out of Warhol’s factory in Midtown Manhattan rather than the picturesque village of Kinsale, and yet to live in a Cardinals song is to be surrounded by a grainy, monochromatic landscape that holds both a gritty rock and roll nostalgia and the rolling hills of Ireland’s traditional musical past.

Their Pogues-leaning, shanty-esque verses swoon into room-filling choruses, and often cloak dark and brooding tales of love in gentle first-person conversational narratives. Their critically acclaimed debut EP Cardinals is an eclectic gothic amalgam of shoegaze, pop, Irish trad folk, and rock which incorporates 60s Wall of Sound and poetry-inflected punk.