The Cork five-piece Cardinals shared their first new material of 2025 in “Big Empty Heart”.
“Big Empty Heart is a love song written from beyond the grave. It is a waltz as waltzes are the most romantic kinds of songs. Oskar wrote the main melody on a Korg synthesiser when he was 12 and the song is built around that.”
“Big Empty Heart” follows last year’s one-off single “Get It” and before that an acclaimed debut EP for the tastemaker label So Young Records. Those six songs displayed the innate warmth of their songwriting, and “Big Empty Heart” has a similar feel, the cyclical sounds of the accordion adding a traditional element to a song and sound that feels both familiar and at once startlingly new.
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