Blog: The Vinyl District

Cardinal play Washington, DC's Velvet Lounge tonight, 5/15. The baroque, neo-psychedelia of Cardinal’s classic, self-titled debut album couldn’t have been more out of step with the indie rock world when it was released in 1994. The album paired the prodigious talents of Australian songwriter Richard Davies, who had previously been a creative driving force in The Moles, with Eric Matthews, a bravura arranger and multi-instrumentalist who plays everything from harpsichord to trumpet and marimba. Critically acclaimed upon its release, the record was both strangely anachronistic and remarkably prescient––it’s [...]