"I guess the Pogues are like kind of a reference point, even though I don't think that we're doing that sort of Irish, using it in a real traditional style,"
"He's like a, he's a very talented musician. I was writing stuff that was like, oh, this could work together if you want to try something out. And we kind of started playing together then. Yeah, it just kind of worked."
"The only main thing that we try to avoid is, we call it like a diddly-eye kind of like music. Like the Dropkick Murphys kind of approach to using traditional instruments in a punk setting which I hope we've done successfully."
Cardinals center an accordion played by Finn Manning within a dark, romantic post-punk sound that deliberately avoids traditional Celtic tropes. Euan Manning cites The Pogues as a loose reference point while rejecting a fully traditional Irish approach. The band established one rule to avoid "diddly-eye" uses of folk instruments akin to Dropkick Murphys. Debut album Masquerade places accordion front-and-center without leaning on obvious Celtic sounds, and was recorded at London's RAK Studios. Cardinals emerged from the Cork music scene, opened for The Pogues in Boston, joined Fontaines D.C. at Finsbury Park 2025, and will tour in spring, including Brooklyn on May 8.
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