
Cardinals by Steve Gullick
New music from Cardinals and Midlake were among the favourite tracks on Live4ever’s radar this week.
Cardinals have confirmed their debut album Masquerade will be released on February 13th next year via So Young Records.
The title-track is first out from those London sessions with producer Shrink, of which Euan Manning has said: “Something the record looks at is peeling back the ‘masquerade’ or the facade we all put up.”

Bar Italia have unveiled their video for Rooster whilst adding a landmark career gig at the London Roundhouse to the live work behind their new album Some Like It Hot.
Lengthy touring following the LP’s release on October 17th is due to start 24 hours later at The Dome in London and will take the band around the world during subsequent months.

Sunrise in New York is the backdrop for Midlake‘s Days Gone By promo, taken from the band’s forthcoming album A Bridge To Far which is due out on November 7th.
“I saw Midlake play London’s Roundhouse in 2023,” Lance has said. “The communion between the band and the crowd was divine.”

Stealing Sheep shared a final preview of ‘GLO (Girl Life Online)’ ahead of the LP’s release last Friday, September 19th.
“U F33L M3 was the first track we wrote for the album and the first track we brought into the studio to rework collectively,” the band have said.
Sleaford Mods have returned with their new single Megaton and will pair it up with Give ‘Em What They Want for the release of a physical 7″ single which is available for pre-order now.
“Such is the weight of trauma, guilt and powerlessness in privileged societies that we squirm like an overloaded petri dish full of algae fed by the algorithm,” Jason Williamson has said.

Be Your Own Pet have described their new single What A B*tch as an, ‘anthem for anyone who has ever been labeled too much, too loud, too brash’.
“My daughter got called a ‘bitch’ by a classmate for the first time this year and was devastated by it,” vocalist Jemina Pearl Abegg has said.

Chilli Jesson has officially launched Dead Dads Club with the release of the band’s debut single Don’t Blame The Son For The Sins Of The Father on Fiction Records.
After first forming Crewel Intentions in the wake of Palma Violets‘ split, Jesson has credited his more recent live work with Fontaines DC for reigniting a passion for ‘raw, honest music’, that band’s guitarist Carlos O’Connell the producer of this track.
