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Cardinals, the five-piece hailing from Kinsale, have been crowned "the next great guitar band to emerge from Ireland" by Rolling Stone UK and have also won high praise from NME and Stereogum.

After selling out their Spring Tour to celebrate the release of Masquerade, the band are back touring this winter, taking it up a notch with bigger shows and bigger production.

It’s clear that Masquerade marks a new era for Cardinals. The making of the album has revealed something new of themselves, opening them up as a more collaborative entity - as evidenced by closing track As I Breathe, written just one week before they entered the studio. While much of the record’s lyrical content deals with the trials and complexities of navigating life, the album ends on a tentatively hopeful note with the striking line “Even as we fall / I have learned the world is small / And I proceed.”