King Cardinal Tour Dates and Upcoming Concerts

Recorded in a period of transformation and upheaval that threatened to end the project entirely, King Cardinal’s extraordinary new record, Reviver, finds bandleader Brennan Mackey reimagining the group from the ground up, fusing modular synthesizers and digital samplers with washed out guitars and dreamy pedal steel to craft a captivating blend of electronic and organic sounds. At its core, the songs are still classic King Cardinal—honest, vulnerable reflections on loss and longing, hope and doubt, recovery and redemption—but the fresh sonic palette is utterly revelatory, transforming the familiar into the unexpected with adventurous arrangements and bold production. The result is a lush, cinematic journey to the brink and back, an enthralling reintroduction to an artist learning to let nature to run its course as he discovers his sound—and himself—all over again. Founded after a move from Chicago to Denver, King Cardinal first emerged in 2013 with a self- titled EP, which earned rave reviews in addition to landing Mackey a slot at the prestigious Telluride Bluegrass Festival. In the years to come, the band would go on to release a series of similarly well-received albums and EPs that would garner even more widespread acclaim as King Cardinal grew into a five-piece band hailed by NPR station KUNC as “making some of the best Americana of the past couple of years in Colorado.”